ra

e guttural roar of a

t my small

e driveway in a brand-n

front door, wearing

a soft kiss to her cheek before they drove

, waving at them with a mass

my father's voice boom

ed dow

ting in his heavy

ding next to the w

of the table sat an

eld our family's most

d the latch and

ve shimmering, m

nst

hey held pure lunar energy and were used as high

ere the life saving

" my mother started, her tone completely casu

he box and scooped

or her dowry," she announced. "She

ttom of the stair

" I

in the air, sh

's head s

me?" he

lly into the

id, keeping my voice perfectly stea

face turned

yelled. "You're a disgra

ts. "I'm leaving this pack to find my own Mate. I

her st

ng warrior, and his physica

he wooden table; the iron box ju

ed. "An Omega demanding an inheri

ward, her eyes narrow

ng cruelly. "Who would want a pat

s, a dark suspicion

about Thorne

ther

stepping closer to me. "Are you stayin

e woman who ga

only a desperate need to prot

t Thorne," I said smoothly

a thick, shaking

in her ceremony, I'll kill

of heavy tires crunching on the

t door b

in, her arms full

k warriors were carrying boxes

ry had

cally danced int

opping her bags onto the sofa

yes widened w

the boxes the war

ged from pure silver-incredibly rar

ed silk and certificates for

nto her purse and pulled

d it to m

ned it, and I

massive b

ther said, her voice shaking with

lently by

single basket of basic winter supplies. No silver. No silk. No money. The contrast made my stomach turn with

parkling new diamond

lly noticed the tense

ring?" Seraphina ask

ed and pointed

nounced loudly. "She's refusing the borde

outh dropped

ed. "Elara, who on eart

in the room su

ut from behind t

, like a storm cl

ine, burning with a fu

slowly t

pha aura leaked out, making the

o back me up until my should

d, his voice dropping

lt the crushing weight

visible pressure that forced lower-ranking wolves

ritted my teeth and forced

h?" Thorne interrogated, his

d back

choked out against the he

shed with a dange

y. "I know you're trying to make me jealous

orld revolved around him. The dream had shown me this too-his bottomless ar

d not shown me w

zed it. It was not an animal. It was the sound of a monstrous, hea

eir heads toward t

d on its door in a stark, blood-red script was the crest of the Blood Eclipse Pack-the most ruthless, globall

or of the first

steppe

the ground, the entire

static in the air, the kind that precedes a lightning strike. It was the smel

oxicating thing I h

ammer against my ri

ins, a scorching heat sp

xiety and fear simply vanished, replaced b

soul had fo

the dream had awakened me, clawed her way to the surface of my min

i

e movement, pulling into sharp, severe creases. My parents' terrified gazes, Thorne's rigid stance of de

, with sharp jawlines, dark ha

y brushed a strand of da

city, but of pure recognition, shot straight down my spine. The soft carti

ice was a deep, velvet rumb

eyes, completely ignori

ed. "I've come to

eath in a pool of my own blood, and a final wish wh

seemed, had kept on