odmoon Pack ha

d the servants' building where I stood frozen in the doorway. Their bodies were

bowing to A

he warriors who had gath

re bowi

rled around t

e happening,"

mind, Ny

eraphina. You are

llowe

they wan

e blood flowing t

ssive black rogue with a scar running acr

the courtyard r

!" Marcus

wolf ign

yes remained

lowered its body until its ch

e escaped

gues followe

barely

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wolves showed any a

they were waiting

cing my voice to remain stead

ned to

hing in his expression th

e

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ck members

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inside me re

within my mind

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re until someone expl

rd went utt

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inning to think everyone e

ression

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truth in

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had deliber

m further, the black rogue

us, Sil

bled b

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before, but only pack members and those connected by

sn't a member

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speak to me?

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ancient blo

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nt a shiver

oved bet

loodmoon territory without permission. L

wly turned its gol

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ha went

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a

the rogue had spoken his name a

that mean?"

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ors surge

s er

o enormous beasts. Warriors charged toward the rogues, weapons

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ilver-tipped spear tow

f was c

red, and it couldn't

inside m

TO

y throat with a force I

xploded across

wolf

or stopped

e swept through the courtyard. Dust rose from the ground, a

est b

down at

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ht inte

f in the clearing

sing

ng Alph

at him in

man in my life was

umiliated me, and treated me like a

't under

mmanded the

n I possessed the

," Marcus

, he sounded afrai

ave you

him, my he

estion is what have yo

ned hi

osed it

ld me more than any

light fad

king around in confusion. Several sta

s remaine

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u must discover why y

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m his uniform. His expression had hard

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persed, although many c

approached the c

ave searched for y

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are

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you calle

refused to kneel to corrupt rulers, so they stripped u

you looki

wered h

ast living heir of the

to drain the wa

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t's impo

her was o

ers wen

er was a

she chose after f

red a

th warm hands and a beautiful voice. She had treated injured pack members,

r spoken of

ntioned a Silver

hat I was anything othe

ying," I

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sh I

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t h

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s have a reason not t

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d toward

with

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have been enough to make me

anym

e with you, you'll tel

ession d

Kael

a right

rounded

to interfere in the

an the territory you stole your wa

g erupted i

he ground had shif

my family?"

rned to

to Marcus because she bel

mach t

knew

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ed at

hat t

id no

conti

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r him over the pou

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tity, you would have the right to challen

ed at

troyed m

had tur

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bled. "Not this tim

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en E

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toward t

ld. Her enemies hunted her, and she fled with you. When

red a

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es I cannot explain without reveali

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meone k

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one kill

oke on the

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t answer he cou

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nds clenched and the way he refu

wered h

eath was no acci

urred my

did

feared your

my cheek

e to believe that

s fli

I believed w

em call me

t you

veryone hu

th would have ma

eco

t, neither

aughed b

was better to mak

expressio

bri

I sa

that whatever secrets he had kept

excuse what

ears I had spent beli

ly didn't make

rned

to be

hina,

t wal

aphi

dn't

's voice rose a

of your territory until you

n't a

that if I opened my m

itting beside the strea

had always gone when

erbs along the banks. She would tell me stories about silver wolves

ght those stories

them had been memories di

ingers into t

ion stared

e aubur

me bro

seen in mirrors fo

thing had

't wol

daughter o

an ancient

had raised me had

le came fro

ted m

's t

n stepped on

o had never needed to struggle for anything. Her name was Evelyne, the daughter

ad laughed with the other no

aight

do you

ced toward t

bout what

've heard

hed and fol

istake by entertai

red a

use

rous. They wan

ost l

know this

ows the Silver Moon

ened around the

old yo

hesi

he shr

mmon kno

it is

ession h

e discovered, you should forget it. You have

to my

ryone keep te

ou're bein

I'll discover something

t, Evelyne

stepped

as a queen makes you important? It doesn'

s struck

I didn't let

I said quietly.

miled tri

e to spend the rest of my li

ile fa

ntin

claims, perhaps you should be more concerned abou

's face

e, I saw genuine

and walked away w

disappear betw

she knew more than sh

nded to fi

ver Bloodmoo

ything I had learned. My head was filled with questio

bed and remov

appeared, but the metal rem

yr

m h

xha

truth. Am I r

he daught

make me a

you do with it will determin

idered

trust

odline. But an oath does not mak

about

silent fo

hings you may

st tig

my mother was

But I know this: your mother's death is

at the

eed to aw

you have no training. If you force it to emerg

allo

teac

wi

ock sounded

the pendant be

is

door, Se

rc

e crossing the ro

n the door

conds, he simp

id, "We ne

aside re

closed the do

n explanatio

ded m

than

kno

ed and sat down. The gesture was so unu

the presence of someone

an carrying a burden that h

e was wounded, exhausted, and being hunted by people who w

s hunti

l families who believed the Silver M

n's family

went

small r

I sa

ld you a

ther was a queen, I want to know whether hi

stood a

y from th

began t

hy

't know what the

know what you'

d at me

d his

s family kil

ression beca

ot answ

ou wo

sed hi

t I would protect you, even

ing cold sett

rotected me by tel

rha

he had admitted that h

wasn't

arly e

toward

will begin training w

row

ha

akened. You must lea

ith the same people who s

t you to

ned th

he pa

thing else you

ait

t before dawn. If Draven learns that the Silver M

ach tig

ould h

ooked ba

fifteen years searching for the la

eemed to g

een y

nod

ave awakened, they will kno

I could ask a

e doorway, un

me because he beli

e royal family had been searching for m

h

they want

mother died tr

door and lean

jection, I wasn't thinking abou

king about

my m

ingdom that

spent years making certain

d to th

beneath the moonlight. Somewhere in the d

ed my p

lpless anymore

se within me, s

begin

t flickered b

, I didn'

atched the moon rise o

King had r

an had li

ingdom had be

fless girl everyone could h

ter of Queen Elara, heir to

ver every secret

th destroyed th

ack to the man who

rgive Draven Blackwood, I needed to discove