THALIA'S POV.
I could see Rebecca still watching me, her eyes almost popping out of her sockets, but I ignored her as I kept my attention fixed on the portrait in front of me, my emotions rising and my eyes starting to tear up more the longer I stared at it.
"Wh- Avalina is your biological mother?" Rebecca whispered, her voice shaky, and I shook my head, my eyes tearing up even more as I felt all the years of pent-up emotions wash over me from head to toe.
"I don't know! I don't know, Rebecca! I grew up an orphan! A pack slave! I never knew my parents! I was abandoned at a pack border when I was merely an infant. The alpha and Luna who picked me up and raised me told me that my parents were rogues who exiled themselves from their original pack because they couldn't bend to pack rules. I
