heavy sky, blurring the horizon into a pale wash of gray. The trees rose like ancient senti

the cold that

s the

erstand it, only knew she couldn't ignore it. Since the moment her reflection moved without her in

s leading

p. Then

. The manor quickly vanished behind her, buried in the thicket of tree

t felt ancient and familia

ra.

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m the woods. It ha

eyes scanning the trees. Nothing. No

-

ved with tense urgency, boot

hout warning?

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is breath, snatching

ugh the wards

" Lucien growled. "But she's not

ed. "Do you

silver. "She's not prey.

she's no

ke steel. "Then whoever's

-

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nter stoo

han her knee, yet it radiated a pre

ols covered the surface, but they weren't letters

ushed her finger

d through

oded behin

-

er Winterborne, a

ace: a village of fire-lit homes and wolves running free among

enter of it

who looke

crescent pendant rested at her throat, puls

irst

sion v

glowed with pale blue light, mist rising fro

rembling. "Wh

t u

ut through the t

, breath heavy, snow in his hair. Hi

me," she sai

not to enter

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ed a ward

ily. "Something

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opped

saw

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hed the M

rowed. "Is th

fore it, hovering his gloved hand

e in over a century," he murmur

in her throat. "But t

nreadable. "You're defying

arms around he

ready f

" he said softly. "

-

at she'd seen. Eira stood in the shower, scrubbing at her arms like she could eras

bl

ror, she s

nt mark on

nt. No longer

ke moonlight be

asn't

imagining

eaked open

anking a tow

ould k

ally against the d

I didn't

for hours. We tho

m f

out in a s

t," she snapped.

ice quiet but intense

st a memory, she looked righ

ed. Something ancie

se you,"

hard. "What d

Luna line is reawakening. And with it...

ed. "There's go

away, words

s is. When a

-

, Eira did

fall under the pale moon. Somewhere in th

her palm t

hing in h

-

into the flames, the shadows da

the Moonsto

olishing a blade. "Th

tight nod. "Sh

rained. Unteth

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ollow Alpha hea

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let hi