Point
on hurled me backward in
l floorboards and plunged into iwith lethal silver
. My vision faded t
going
wer shattered. The terrible wounds inflicted by silver poison burned away the seals holding back my bloodline. Blinding,
d, fractured, and re‑knitted
ged through my veins, purging every t
this in the clan'
hite
ess herself, bearer of the rarest, most
de me for years, suppressed by chi
death, the White Wo
pt me miles downstream until I w
cellar. When the greedy doctor demanded an exorbitant advance fee to hide a fugitive wolf, I sliced my wrist open before his eyes and let three drops of my newly awakened glowing‑white blood drip into a glass vial. The liq
a lone wolf without a pack, existing
r a full week while my new white‑wolf blo
nic television. Wolf‑clan news was broa
d by millions of wolf‑net users. Everyone saw it: her fake tearf
the whole network; people conde
for me as an anonymous wandering wolf through the neutral‑zone court, and the Council of Elders was compelled to answer it. The petition pointed directly to the cla
ilter. They also found the fire‑extinguisher canister Kael had used up. Most damning of all, the logs showed Julian had secretly patched a vial of real silver solution into the
and‑rescue teams had officially hal
off the t
and rented a tiny, cheap apartmen
s. My hand froze halfway to the faucet. The tap was made ofough it was being crushed. I collapsed onto cold b
severe psychological trauma left by silver p
silently weeping, until I finally found
issors. I cut away my scorched, damaged long hair, letting s
ly two weeks had passed since the explosion, and my father was h
ow. Clutching my portrait, he shouted hysterically at th
re on the jaw. My own brother screamed accusations
elling that I had smashed th
you two had not triggered that false alarm, she would n
, landing heavy blows. Seraphina stood nearby, wailing
other bloody, yet felt no
he live‑st
ficial mate‑bond termination certification, my formal declaration of leaving th
had left for dead in
lf would make them
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