Chapter 139

Damon

I know some of you are probably sitting there wondering why things are about to get a little bit interesting.

Well, you’re right. They are. My family is a whole lot, and when I say a whole lot, I mean the kind of people who can turn a simple dinner into a battlefield. That is one of the reasons why I never told Lyra about them.

Not because I was never going to, but because I had planned to do it on my own time. My plan was to tell her when the pups were at least two years old, when she had settled into her place as Luna, when nothing could shake her footing beside me.

But life doesn’t always wait for your perfect plan, does it? Things happen, and now we are here, at the front gates of my family’s home, with Lyra about to learn truths I had every intention of keeping buried for a little while longer.

We were more than twelve in the family before I left the house. Twelve siblings, cousins, the kind of number that makes a house feel like a pac