la Cr
n the training grounds in my nightg
sleep agai
. "I have three days, Marcus. Three days to
ed his chin lightly on top of
s own wolf, a huge dark brown beast with burning amber eyes, and circled me slowly, nudging me with his head as if h
ng wo
, shaking with anger at myself, a
I choked. "
not caring that his shirt was torn and his s
"Whatever the council decides, you are my
badly to b
as silent, but I cou
Selene came to my
opened without a knock. My sister walked in wearing soft yellow dres
ly. "It's an old recipe from the healer's
you care abou
d a cup of golden-brown tea, and the s
almost perfect. "I know we haven't been close. But you're my sister
oment, I almos
the cup toward me. "All of it.
, and the steam
it,* my wolf
dropped
ot kill you, but it will lock me away even deeper. You w
looked at my sister ov
I thought. *She is try
ng?" Selene asked
It smells lovely. Could you open
er back was turned, I tipped the whol
d around, the
her eyes gleamed with tri
til her footsteps faded.
black, as if the plant had been poisoned to
d. My own sister had just tried to de
ould cry and deny everything. Marcus was kind, but he would look at me with the same careful p
o stay silent
he trial, I couldn't
d a scarf around my head, slipped out through the east door, and walked into the f
was silver with frost, sat down on a f
I whispered. "I don't kno
hey want,* said my wolf. Her vo
d. "Why were you sile
I was sealed. My power was too great for your b
y for
you were b
Silver light began to leak out from under my scarf, bright enough to
a, s
he full moon is pulling at t
light died away. The clearing went da
heard f
the moonlight on the other side of the clearing. One was a slim girl in a
y the way she wal
"She's never that obedient. But it doesn't matter, because she's still
His voice was deep and roug
become Luna." Selene smiled. "I've w
el word she had ever said to me suddenly made se
he man sai
oze. "Wha
and rain. That is the Alpha's scent." He turned his hooded face toward the log w
and his scent still clung to my skin and my
went pale in
e man said calmly. "
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