la'
tood there, tall and beautiful, his golden eyes f
Ruthless. Deadly. Beautiful i
the Moon Goddess mu
rose and fell quickly. My wolf, who had been quiet for so
, but not kind. Not gentle. Like he couldn't
hed my face for answers I didn't have. I
t first, then he grew angry.
s curled, as if the word tasted bad on
see it, the way the truth was sinking into his bones like poison. He looked like a go
I reject you, Layla Bla
in my chest, but in my soul. Like knives digging i
up too fast. My hands hit the dirt, shak
d came out of me. Just shaking, quiet, and
alf-I had just pulled our lin
He turned back and walked away like he
lverclaw's border. My body felt like it was breaking apart, cell by cell. I held my stomach li
. My vision dimmed at the
eal. She was there. My only friend, the
pped beside me, and pulled me into her ar
ces. She held me tight, like sh
id softly, brushing hair fr
d only break me again. She held me tighter.
t anything; my mate had rejected me witho
s my bones ached. Even as my wolf went silent again, curling into some dark place inside
st. "Oh, you mean that poor Layla," she said with a fake pout.
ad down, but I could feel it... eyes on me, snickers
time I walked into the exercise yard, it got worse. No on
n't stop it all. She tried. "Ignore th
ld they be scared of someone like me
ide the healer's hut one evening, trying to wrap a
ved me, said I was his. But wher
e ache in my chest and the sou
was cruel, and now the whole pa
indow-soft, careful. I rolled from my thin cushion and crep
arkness, arms cross
efore I could stop myse
, eyes dark. "Y
t," I said. "Y
as happening. The pack's not safe anymo
cket-a stone. No, a pendant. Th
d light. "It's reacting again," he s
hing it. Hunting something." "What
erything. But it's old. Sacre
r name is written on th
r. There, carved into the metal, al
said in a low voice. Kael's eyes flickered. "I
through the trees. Movement. Kael's he
wh
hand, and this time, I didn't
Silverclaw. Away from Nightfa
wls again, but they weren
whatever lies I was about to uncove
as waking up, and it ha