lagstones, memories I had tried to bury

ing but a rogue, a lone wolf lying a

use the wolf inside him was de

's own father-refused to acknowledge

aptivated by his unt

re was no fear in his eye

love with

roke the sacred

lood vampire healed his deformed wolf, transfo

him. He wanted revenge. He

d him, I gave

secret armies of the Night

on blood-soaked battlefields. Step by step, bathed in blood, I helped

urious penthouse suite of the Blood Moon Packhouse. He f

s soaking through my dress. "I will cherish you forev

credibly happy. Even when I discovered I was pregnant-an unpreceden

me like fra

brought

le

ish-a stray, beautiful, and fragil

had been slaughtered. Kaelen took pity on

my pregnancy left me bedridden and w

er like a l

reading to me, and brewing special herbal tea

h-ranking mate within the pack, she would blush, look down at her hands

lind. Utte

ome miracle cure; it was a slow-actin

s in my womb, mutated the baby,

, the pain was apocalyptic. I sc

born, the midwives gasped

f pup. I birthed a scrawny, scentless, hairless

forget the look of absolute revulsion on his face. The love in

refused to believe the child was his, entirely ignori

of the pack, Kaelen flew into a blind rag

, Kaelen brought the blade down, clea

cre

in my own blood. He announced to the pack that I was a whore, banished

"out of reach" lover was. She had p

together, I performed a

f Ancient Blood, the source of our immortality and magic. Every t

en body, I sacrificed my Ancient Blood, pouri

s that I didn't have nine drop

ad secretly used seven drops of Ancien

nt for him, dying and coming back to life in the

King, when the magical core of his wolf

ripped out my crystallized Scarlet Core, and pla

my heart.

ed one. I was left with a single drop, hovering on the brink of

olding the miraculously revived and breathing in

e wal

eyes were manic, gleaming with dark, tri

dripping with venom. "Blame yourself for trustin

flesh. She grabbed me by the hair and dragged me

er hands into the cavity, searching for the Scarlet Co

the core was already beating inside Ka

gged my broken body to the edge of the Daylight Rift,

" she sneered, kick

rning to ash,

gure hurled itself into the abyss, plunging aft

d upon my womb broke. Just before the darkness swall

sn't