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xia
d was a
a deep, penetrating cold that seeped in
snap one by one, a sickening crunch echoing inside my
he damp, earthy smell of the cellar. Despair pressed down
l always
ithered through the fog of my fad
denly, ev
y clean lavender and sunshine. The weight lifted from my ches
t hammering against my
sion. I blinked, tears streaming down m
ite ceiling with a deli
n-year-ol
e pale, slender, and unmarred - no scars, no chain marks. Just the
n, a final cruel trick my min
eached out and pinched the
bloomed under the ski
. The floorboards were cool beneath my bare feet. I stumbled to the fu
ks still rounded with youth, the eyes wide and terr
date was circled in red ink with a little smile
Sixteen year
ands to my mouth, stifling a sob that was half laughter, half reli
was quickly followed by icy dread as the
a. My
run away with her to Sunstone Ridge. A si
d torn through my ankle, shattering the bone. And Katrina... Katrina had looked back once, her eyes wide with
remony. It branded me a coward, a runaway. It was
licate bone. No trace of the hideous, puckered scar tha
thought took hold: if I
gers into the collar of my silk nightgown a
art s
l Alpha-should have been, there was only a distorted smudge. The elegant outli
od ran
forgotten. Her vanity was neat, her perfumes arranged in a perfect line. I
k of diaries, was a small, nearly
arily alter the appearance of a birthmark. I had read about it in an old
, and the truth hit me with
was ba
tered my destiny mark, trying to steal my fate, to push me onto t
became the "moon"of some powerful Alpha. S
e'd stolen a path paved with glory. But
footsteps approached the do
dy? It's time to hea
odic as I remembered - a sound that
oothed my nightgown, schooling my features into a mas
osed door, and I d
chitect of m
one, incinerated by a cold,
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