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ouldn't have

shifted-sharp, sudden, deliberate. Leaves hissed across the ground like whispers cut too close

home,

ped wa

didn't remember girls who ran away with nothin

sed to when I was a child hiding beneath the eld

and forced m

ding path that led deeper into pack land. But I had. I could feel it in the

nced, dragging twenty years of buried history behind m

eturn. Things

re. None w

would dare sum

e

nd hadn't allowed myself to imagine what he looked like now. The boy who once prom

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he clearing just as voi

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instinct

you know it," a m

ocking. "Your borders are

nt ice throu

g, until the clearing opened

two Silverpine warriors. They weren't trying

ckr

mach d

s posture arrogant, his grin sharp. "Te

bristled. "You step

interrupted. "You'll bleed on

urned back. I s

hot and furious c

t I was doing, I step

ay from

snapped in

hock. The Blackridge wolves in

slowly, eyes raking over

my knees trembled. "You

sked, amusement dri

answer. I wasn't packed. I wasn't a wa

rest answe

lent. Branches groaned. The gro

ge wolf's sm

voice steadier than I f

owled, stepping back as the

d at my

ere gl

s of light pulsing beneath my

ough me. No. No, t

. I hadn't called for power.

t didn't care

ound e

kridge wolves' legs, their arms, their throats. They howled, st

rain

arriors stumbled

n's name-" one o

rt hammered so hard I thou

ed silently.

oots

ing just enough to ke

ed at me now, fear finally bleeding

know," I

pressure

he wolves collapsed, gasping. Without another word, they shifted a

ed down over

warriors turn

ped to h

he said u

hit me li

tarted, but my

s the clearing then-dominan

ph

rn around to know w

had gone

ely

ken low and

urn

, power etched into every line of him. His eyes-those same storm-gray ey

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or hi

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just do?" he

my mouth

trembled again,

the forest, someth

nty, that whatever had awakened i