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pounded the floor. “Damn it! You’re the Druid princess that lost her kingdom in a day.”
    “Apparently,” Azura responded dryly.
    I dragged my fingers across my face. Mom had actually disguised the truth in the bedtime stories she religiously recited every night. “So you have the ability to dematerialize and materialize from place to place?”
    “Yes. But technically it’s bending time, like I’m doing now.”
    “And you can actually use magic?”
    Azura scoffed. “There’s no such thing as magic. That’s something that humans made up to rationalize the unexplainable. All Druids were born with the ability to manipulate the elements—air, earth, fire, water, or spirit—but purebloods have the ability to manipulate all five. This is what allows me to move through time. What you call dematerializing and materializing.”
    I shook my head with confusion. “Why didn’t she just tell me the truth?”
    Azura laughed. “Would you have believed her if she did?”
    I sighed. “Honestly? No.” I would have had her committed to the psychiatric hospital. There couldn’t be two crazies roaming around, and I was crazy enough for both of us.
    “That’s what I thought.” Azura paused. “I know that you have no reason to trust me, but I mean you no harm. If you really want to see the truth, then take a leap of faith. Open your mind to my past and let me show you how to survive your future.”
    It was illogical, but I knew that she was telling the truth. “God, I hope I don’t regret this shit. Okay.” I scowled. “What do I have to do?”
    “Just open your mind to my world. Ready?”
    “As ready as I’ll ever be.”
     

 
    CHAPTER 3
    THE PAST

    “Azura. Are you sure about this?” Hunter mumbled against her ear while caging her legs.
    Azura wrapped her arms around her mate’s lean waist, sinking into his comforting aroma. “Yes. Sacrifices must be made.” Her voice held both a tinge of determination and sadness.
    She swallowed the bitter bile that rose up her throat, not willing to dwell on the fact that as Kyles Thorburn’s only child, her life had been a series of hard sacrifices. Sacrifices that left burning scars on her soul, but she was resigned to the fact that this was her destiny, and she would be damned if her son would die because of it.
    No. Everything she did from here on out would be for him, for the day he, the only pureblood Druid to be born in years, would take his rightful place as the leader of the High Council.
    She stepped out of his embrace, anxiously smoothing her flaming-red locks before cupping his cheek. She traced her fingers over the roughness of his beard. He was her rock. Her true-mate, and she loved him more than life, but love was not enough to provide protection against the sharks circling, enticed by the smell of blood in the water. Her blood, if she continued her refusal to submit to the will of her cousin Glen.
    Hunter scowled, his eyes transforming from human to wolf, then back again. “You ask too much of me.” He hissed, running an angry hand through his short jet-black hair. “My son…" he snarled, "given to humans to raise as if I weren’t strong enough to protect him.”
    She looked at him coldly. “Do you think I actually enjoyed hiding my pregnancy and his birth like some coward? What choice did I have? Glen would have killed him if knew I gave birth to a pureblood Druid.”
    Her heart raced at the thought of Glen finding out about her son’s birth. Glen wouldn’t hesitate to kill him. Her son was a pureblood and by legacy, the rightful heir to the throne. A throne coveted by Glen and his father for centuries. A throne they wouldn’t think twice to kill to get.
    Glen was a cocky bastard, but she knew under all that cockiness was bitter jealously. Jealously that he was born with the unfortunate blight of not being a pureblood. All attributed to his father’s non-pureblood genetics. Genetics that should have prevented him from becoming the leader of the