dy'

elieved love was supposed

s Alpha heir, handsome and certain of himself

oo close, and grateful for the burn. He didn't like me speakin

let it warm me, because no one else in the Whitlock Pack ha

I was young, and I had spent my whole life being treated like a flaw in an otherwi

stepsister, a she-wolf who s

broken sound I had never heard her make, and the mate bond told us the

e him, crying out, and Drexel was driving up into her with a focus that made bile climb my throat. I wanted to scream. I wanted to t

said, unhurried, as if he were explaining weather. "You'll a

servant, his mistress, the Luna in name onl

uld be permitted to stay at his side. I refused. I refused th

raged him. He struck me across the face, and when I still

he Whitlock Pack came out to watch. I searched every face

among them, unmoving, w

ack the Bloodmoon heir," he said, loud enough

chosen Drexel and the stepdaughter who shar

red, smiling for the crowd. "A scentless little ghost like you was never going to be missed." Then she pushed me through the g

earing at anything that came close, my silver coat soaked black with cold and blood. There were more of them than I could count, and I felt

round, alive, saved by a power I never saw and could not name. When I could stand, I lift

e bond to my father's line snap like a te

he Whitlock territory was behind me and the human distr

ht and built a life small enough that no one could ever take it from me again. For three

and the past reached through the gl

you su

ex

ld be anyone, a cruel accident, a wrong

home before I

k in my hand.

moon law-they could file a claim, send wolves, drag me back through the sam

d by law to another Alpha's pack was a wolf ev

rty may leave without penalty. A man who had handed me a

ld talk me out of it. "I'll marr

"Are yo

se-shorter this time. He sounded unsurprised, as

g," Cassian said. And for the first time sin