Page 108 of Shadow Bonds

“How did I get here? Where are my mates?” I ask while trying to come up with a plan or at least figure out where I am.

“I’m the one who found you. In the burning building,” he says softly, and I freeze. He can’t mean what I think he means.

The burning building…“It was you? You’re the Variant that switched my body?” I ask.

“No,” he shakes his head giving me a sad look over his shoulder. “I switched itback.”

Every part of me freezes turning to ice. Switched… it… back…

The words don’t process in my brain immediately. It takes a minute before I realize what he’s just said. But when he realizes I’m not saying anything, he continues.

“Thisis your real body, Sena. You were switched as a child. We needed to hide you and keep you safe. So no one could find you and figure out what you are.”

A sliver of awareness slides through the shock, needing to know what he means. “What am I?”

He glances back at me with an expression full of reverence and awe. “Our last hope.”

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