Elijah and Sophy's mother, his younger sister, was a kind and compassionate woman.

She was a childhood friend of his father's, and later, they fell in love and married, though they were not destined to be mates.

They swore they would never be separated, even if they found their mates. Still, everything changed with the arrival of Jasmine, the Alpha's Omega mate.

Her father could not resist the bond call and betrayed her mother with her chosen mate.

Eventually, her mother died of severe depression.

She was too much in love with her husband to accept that if she kept her Luna position, it would only be out of pure pity and her childhood memories with the Alpha.

Elijah walked through the halls of the central house of his pack, where they lived, to the room where he knew his mother had taken her last breath.

He was like a ghost, watching the facts, but there was nothing he could do; he was not in control, just as he had not been at that moment when he was a boy of barely ten.

He saw him