Chapter 155

Maxine’s POV

"What do you think you're doing?!" I yelled. "You can't kill yourself."

She removed my hands from her and stood to her feet. I did the same. "I wasn't trying to kill myself, Maxine. Far from that. I'm my mother's only biological child." She dropped.

"What?" I asked in shock.

"My siblings were all adopted. The only child she gave birth to was Gabriel and I. As we grew older, the family got a lot bigger." Zel explained.

"Whoa…" It made a whole lot of sense now. I thought the kids were Cinder's, all with different fathers. I know, it was a derogatory thing to think about Cinder. I had considered adoption but I thought too much about it.

"This was where he died. He was trying to save me, Mom, Oz, and Raine. He was a wolf. Mom had fallen in love with an Alpha and she had his child. He had rejected her, of course, because he already had a luna." Zel sighed and took a seat. I sat down next to her, listening.

"That was