Chapter 52

*BRIANNE’S POV*

My jaw dropped. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Slowly, my hand rose to my mouth, every movement filled with shock.

“no one aside from my family knows Josh is a hybrid,” Jordyn explained. “To avoid shame and unwanted attention on the family, my mother took Josh to a seer who completely masked the hybrid part of him.”

“Whoever sees him thinks he’s a beta,” He added, looking down, as his eyes focused on his hands.

“I watched him growing up Bri,” He continued, his voice tight with emotions. “I saw how my mother treated him. She’d beat him for things he didn’t even do.”

Tears threatened to fill my eyes. Seeing Jordyn talk about Josh like this was heartbreaking.

“Sometimes, he would run up to me and hide me.” He said, letting out a sad, bitter laugh. “I knew my mother was hurt by what my father did, but that doesn’t give her the right to take it out on the innocent boy, does it?” he said, turning to me as if he wanted me to answer.

“I’m so fond of him, and I know