Fiona - POV
As the Festival of Mate Bonding approached, Veronica had a special request—to visit my parents’ estate. Shifters like us lived in a dimension separate from the human world, existing in our own spaces and rarely interacting with humans. For me, crossing between realms was not my daily reality, teleporting through portals to fulfill my duties. But after losing my parents, life forced me into the shifter realm, surrounded by their rules and customs.
Before their deaths, my family and Veronica’s had fought fiercely to remain in the human world, resisting the pressure from shifter authorities. But after my parents’ deaths and the trials that followed, Veronica’s family was forced to return to the shifter dimension. It felt like the end of everything I’d known.
When Veronica and I
