Alpha's Reborn Luna

night, deep and guttural,

lves' snarls-this was someth

y going still, muscles tensed like

s. My wounds ached, my wolf was still weak, and exhaustion

we weren

h in the sky. The air became cloying, damp with the scent of rotting earth and old blood. Th

oward the sound. "

n't a

n my side. The fight with the shadow wolves ha

ed. A fresh wave of dizziness washed over m

rm, steadying me. His touch sent a pulse of warmth through my skin-a

e muttered un

y, ignoring the unwanted heat curl

-a heartbeat-something unreadable crossed his

the groun

led through the trees, so d

od ran

was no

darkness, his entire posture shiftin

r

ged roots and ducking beneath low-hanging branches. The thick sce

, powerful, his dark presence cutting through

s fallin

agony lancing through my ribs, but I pushed fo

erupted

mething crashed int

as I hit the ground, the impac

en I s

ming over me

as w

pulsed as if alive. Its limbs were too long, its spine arched at an unnatural angle, bones jutt

't just

s thi

ck, revealing jagg

spo

ice layered with someth

te.

of recognition

once been like us.

as someth

Twisted bey

orse tha

eature

my throat had been. Dirt sprayed as I scrambled backwar

ong. I was still

ince the rejection,

t fear

becomi

er, the Alph

ion. A savage

of them crashing into the trees. Wood splintered. The air fille

rt pounding. I had to help-

leeting second... I ha

d me more than th

recise, devastating. His power rippled thro

eature was

een dead-but it

it. Whatever had cursed these wolves, whatever had tur

ng deep, but the creature didn't scream. It only

nera

mered. "It's

ious, tearing into the beast ag

ad t

to move. Pushed p

aw it-a

ed like living things. The corruption pulsed

't hes

st of spee

eep into the corrup

ature s

y shriek that sha

nd it shuddered-

it looked almo

t coll

le

rd, his fists still clench

traighten, wiping th

," I said, voice hoarse

ine. Something dark p

only

d the deeper pa

r of u

gh the trees, I knew

n't just

was call

would come