Chapter 42. Turn Every Stone

Kade’s POV

We had approximately six books lying scattered on the desk, and two more with mounds of paper on the round table by the chairs. Everyone was sifting through them, looking for any and all information there was about Emberclaws and their heritage. Where did they come from? When was the first one born? Why was he born? How did this species ever come to exist in a world with a perfect balance between creatures and humans?

We needed everything and more, and we needed to learn about them—the truth, not just the stories we’d been told.

“Here,” Anna said and ripped out a piece of paper from the huge pile.

“It says, um, it’s about a city in the states where two Emberclaws were born into smaller packs.” She laid it on the pile of gathered information and continued sifting through the rest.

“This book writes about the origin of the Emberclaws, but it’s from the 1900s, so it can’t be the beginning,” Mason said and read through the pages.

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