The Beast i
skin as she lay outside the Great Hall. Behind those thick oak doors, the music had st
mate was kissing her sister, an
eeth chattering so hard it hurt her jaw. "I
e frozen ground, but she didn't care. The pain in her chest-the jagged hole w
s in a storm. She looked back at the Silver Moon Packhouse. It was th
r voice a ragged sob. "I hope the Goddes
d began to limp to
lack
trees were alive. They said the things that lived inside were older than the Moon Go
ped another ten degrees. The wind died down, replaced by a sile
un
r heart leapt i
Her voice sounded small and
breathing and the distant howl of a wolf fro
d frozen twigs. Her vision began to blur. The cold was moving from her skin i
further," she l
clipped a stone, and the world spun in a dizzying circle of black
going to
ing as he draped a Luna's cloak over Selene's shoulders. The anger f
he thought. I'll be the nig
he smel
ive leather. It was a scent so powerful it made her inner wolf-the one that had never
hit the ground nearby
ced her e
feet away was
s blacker than the night around them, and its eyes weren't hazel
watched her. Its muscles rippled
le tear freezing on her cheek. "Do i
he sheer power radiating off the creature made it hard for Elara to brea
ra's face. It smelled like woodsmoke and iron. She expec
w, vibrating huff. It nudged h
are you doing?
cracking and snapping filled the quiet air-a sound that usua
, the wolf
e moon. He was naked, his bronzed skin covered in jagged white scars that looked like lightning
oken form, her bloody feet, and the "Rejection Mark"
n said. His voice was deep, like the rumble of
blurred movement, he was over her. He grabbed her chin with
are you?"
his thumb brushing over her bottom lip. "And
d fire returning for a second. "I've already
ngerous smirk. "You have fire. I like
though she was terrified, even though she was dying, she felt a pull. A magnetic,
whispered, her eyes wid
e dropping to a whisper. "And you
your slave
rms as if she weighed nothing. He held her against his bare, warm chest. "I need a
he saw a promise of power. She saw
to burn," s
round her. "Then we are go
le Elara had ever seen. The wind whipped her hair, but for the first time i
e Silver Moon hunting party
said, fear tightening her chest
, booming laugh that e
n't had a good hunt in decades. I'll send
oked down. Nestled in the valley below was a city of
over. Her life as a mon
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