an ordinary ache in my body, it was a deep pulling sensation that came
, it seemed to come
breathing, th
I saw a strange face hovering over me. I opened my eyes clearly to see a tall but lean figure that loo
oftly. Stay still and don'
are
feless here in the woods, but luckily for you, I usual
hed through my side. My breath c
y's been through something fierce." You were burning up with a fever,
hesi
d slowly toward
"You're carrying life inside
in my ear. There was si
n. "No, that c
regnant, and I can te
a while. How could I be preg
and now his chi
oice. He rejected me, he said I was nothing. How
pen are things we may never understand. Fate doesn't bind us to what we want but
wn my eyes. "I
already happened and the child you c
stant trees, everywh
't kno
aintly. "Then l
-
into the mountain trails, to an old cottage nestled high above the
er a full moon t
with silver flecks in his eyes and a t
-for what I had lost an
ew one day, he'd want to
me. But she never
"The wolf inside you is restle
ning journey of
s from controlling my shift. How to breathe when rage threatened to unra
a staff. "You are now a mother and a fighter. You don't have t
n. Most times my muscles screamed at the constant pull, my wolf
for myself and my son. Because I didn't
-
iya handed me a small blade. It
taught me how to fight when the world tried
y m
are broken know how
hand and felt a part of
the moon and let my wolf rise. My shift was smoother no
omega-I was now a f
-
o in the wooden tub, which was unlike he
r the sound of water trickli
see her eyes widen, her
, standing at the
dn't a
ushed behind Leo's ear again, her expr
th
"It's the sa
t ma
ave-Leo has it too.
me, Mariya. What
, so hastily that I had to run after