Chapter 319. The Truth Is Going to Come Out

The silence that followed Bartholomew’s words was heavy and Ann sat very still, her fingers drumming lightly against the arm of her chair mulling over everything that Bartholomew had learned until finally, she exhaled and broke the silence.

“So let me get this straight,” she said slowly. “Greyson was torn away from his mother as a child and you allowed him to grow up believing that she’d died in the wilderness. And all this time...” she gestured toward the glowing file on the screen “...she’s been tucked away in some little human village with his brother, alive and well?”

Bartholomew didn’t flinch.

“Yes.”

Ann’s eyes narrowed.

“And he still has no idea?”

“No,” Bartholomew admitted. “Even when he hit adulthood and shifted for the first time…he was never told.”

“That’s a dangerous secret to sit on,” Adam answered as his eyes narrowed in disapproval.

Bartholomew’s face was calm, but his hands tightened against his knees.

“It really w