-Kaytlyn- I couldn’t believe this. Maddy… she had almost been killed by our mother. OUR MOTHER! I knew the old woman was bitter and difficult, but I had never thought she would go that far. “I need to go now,” Lucian said before we could come up with a plan. “I’ll do my best to look after Maddy, but you all need to come up with something fast. I think they’ll do whatever it takes to get to you two.” Lucian was right. They would burn this place down just to get to us. It wasn’t just about the union anymore. They wanted to show us who was truly in charge. It was sickening, and I bet they learned their tactics from their own fathers. Mine certainly did. I once asked my father about him out of curiosity, and I met the woman he had mated—my grandmother, the one I was named after. “Thank