Betrayed By The Beta: Awakening The Supreme Wolf

away from completing the sacred Matin

open. A cloaked rogue stumbled in, h

eraphina! And now you aband

ir whispers instantly draggi

ng light pierced my mind. The Moon God

rain my family's wealth to pay his debts, only to bring home a love

as I coughed up black blood, letting me die in a

courtship was a meticulously crafted lie, a trap

gnited a violent tremor

was dead. Deep within my soul, the supr

word on the altar. This time, I would

pte

phin

ght bled from the high Gothic windows, painting

my slippers. Across the chancel, Julian fussed with the cuff of his dress uniform. As the scion of a diminished Beta line, his family's bygone prestige

carefully constructed artif

of a soul decreed by the Moon Goddess herself,

inally mingle and our wolves claim their counterpart, hu

like a thunderclap as the great oak do

stumbled down the nave, and with its arrival

that a low, guttural growl rumbled up from the chests of the assem

d a hand, holding up a g

wore, and from it radiated my own uniq

rever, Seraphina!"

ough, trying to mim

your love, and now you aban

h-ranking families. My heart hammered against my ribs-not with shame, but with a cold, unfamiliar fury. That necklace had been locked

mouth to def

detonated behind my eyes-a divine Mind-Link, a sil

did not belong to this

a past

ing Julian, believ

ng bite a prelude to abandonment in a

litary merits and our family's

passed in

om the borders, bu

year-old pup, the woman's throat and wrists hea

ned the intruder today wa

imate daughter of Elder S

eing an Omega and was secretly

ne sunless and airless. Julian stood over me, his

simply the will of

y soul, leaving me an empty s

, snapping me ba

sensation ripped

ed into my lungs seemed to turn to rust and ash on my tongue. But beneath the agony, something ancient and terrible stirred-a power

ul, a legendary p

te Wolf, an ancient and supreme

ned, furious and hu

figure, and then at Juli

ed my house dry. But the girl from the vision was gone. In her place, something else had awoken. And as my fingers curled toward the ceremonial