The Bear Truth

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Authors: Ivy Sinclair
education. Then I wanted you to go out and explore the world beyond Greyelf. I wanted you to get away from all of the ghosts that were here and out from the shadow of the shifters. It's something that I should've done myself a long time ago."
    "Dad, Greyelf is my home.” The words were heartfelt. Greyelf was my home. Lukas was my home. I had come back there after college because I thought that one day he would return, and he did. I wasn't sure what else to say.
    "Dad, I think there's something else going on here. Something that’s being hidden under wraps. Lukas believes that there was someone who had something to do with Markus's death. He doesn't think it was an accident."
    I could tell that my father was going to try and argue with me, but then he paused and seemed to think better of it.
    “Maren, what you know about what's supposed to happen with the negotiations at the Summit?” he asked.
    "I know what everybody else knows. The shifters are planning to ask for further enforcement around an integrated society and harsher punishments against those who act in violence against them."
    "There are many who stand against that kind of action," my dad said. "It's a little-known secret that has been going around in the upper echelon of the political circles. Those that stood behind the equal rights legislation eighteen years ago are seriously thinking about switching their vote. People are scared, Maren. The attacks on humans have been increasing every year."
    I didn't know what to think about this shift in conversation. I brought my dad here to ask him tell him about me and Lukas and to find out what he knew about Markus Kasper's death that he hadn’t told me. But now I realized that there was something far deeper and more sinister and everything that he was talking about. "How do you know about this? Where did you hear it?"
    "Where doesn’t matter. I didn't want to believe either. But maybe it's time that you saw some of the truths of the world we live in. Things I don't know your alpha, or whatever you want to call him, has told you about. That's the thing that pisses me off about this entire situation," my dad, clearly getting ready to launch into a tirade. "He should’ve told you all of this! He's put you in danger just by the very nature of being close to him because of who he is. This Summit is going to be a landmark in history. That's the real reason that Markus Kasper is dead."
    I couldn't keep the shock off my face. There was something that my father knew that he hadn't told me. "You know something. Tell me what it is."
    My father stood up. “I'm amazed that they let me in the front gate to begin with considering what a thorn in the side I’ve been to them over the years. I guess I have you to thank for that." He moved over to the window and looked out the curtain shaking his head. "They can try make this place look like Mayberry, but it's not. We want to all think that we’re like each other, but we’re not. Shifters are far more dangerous than they will ever let us believe. We have to be aware. Yes, they are our neighbors and our friends, but they also hide something from us that cannot be controlled. I think we fully appreciate that yet."
    I never heard my father speak this way before. I didn't know what to make of it. My father had long supported the shifters and their push for equal and integrated rights. Now, he was talking like he had changed his mind. Suddenly, I didn't trust him the way that I had before. Plus, there was something that he knew about Markus’s death that I didn't know. "Well, maybe you can show me the information you’ve gotten from your sources so I can see it all for myself."
    My father walked to the front door and with his hand on the doorknob paused and glanced in my direction. "If you can find your way out of here, come see me then. I'll show you what I can show you and try to help you understand what you’ve put yourself in. In the meantime, watch your back sweetheart." With a

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