Severed Bond: The White Wolf's Second Chance

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alive with the

circling. I could smell their rot, the stench of their matted, unwashed fur.

lowing yellow eyes appeared

head. Rogue minds were fractured, broadc

er Wolf was silent. I was going to die here. A

ted. A beam of pure, concentrated moonlight

ir eyes, and scrambled back into

nstead, it felt... warm. Li

wasn't in my head. It was in the

rced my battered body to move. I crawled, then walk

Temple, a place strictly forbidden by Pack Law. I

the stone floor,

e Goddess

he room. It was like a hologram, b

the sun shining. It

the garden, look

. It moved to the boat

. And I s

er. Eli's eyes were glaz

or. Eli had gone into a biological Rut, a time

floor. A purple gas rose up. Synthetic Pheromones. Illegal.

asn't the

ion, I hea

ied voice cried out from

e

p. He had heard it. I saw the f

ssed him, hard. The pheromones spiked. Eli's eyes rolled back. H

fifty yards away, my Mate was rutting

ed again. Inside

y said, fixing her hair

... relieved. "Cody is strong. Leo was weak, like his mother.

He had been cheati

the silence of the ruins. It was primal. It wa

me, my Inner

pure, unadulterated rage. The dormant weakness vanished, rep

lf snarled. *TEAR

d I had worshipped, now felt like a noose around my neck. It felt like slime. I

to kill them. Not yet.

Goddess whispe

s I recognized from my studies. The Ritual of Severance

party dying, you had to sacrifice

of t

n L

forget Eli... meant I

"I can't los

vive,* the wind whispered. *

y resolve was iron. I would not be Eli S

d to th

t," I wh

d. He was huge, towering over seven feet. His e

" his voice was deep, like

im from the history books.

him dead in the eye. "Hel