Bound by Blood and Moonlight

scream with sound

the bark like a warning. Alero stumbled forward, her hand clutching he

r-bright and watching. The runes carved into

and she would b

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, they had sh

. And, if fate had any

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in like thorns but she gritted her teeth and pu

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as c

cl

om the shadows, teeth

didn't

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in a blink, bla

ere was

p in her lungs-not from the fight-

as h

ually come," a voice sa

old. A tribal wolf tattoo curled on his arm like it had a pulse

tensed

wasn't

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forward. She he

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head. "Did the

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stirred in her blood, it

he said, gaze dro

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lickering behind the gold. "

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like fire caught in a st

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dfire. Visions slammed int

mother burned. A blad

led back,

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neck where a second m

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asn't fate

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ing da

knees, gasping. Her magic twisted. Her body

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ward her. She

" she r

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er voice cracked. "You don't und

t is

, glowing with somethi

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d, into shadow, into

h the moon, blood stil

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toward t

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d away, jaw tight, eyes distant. The scen

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deeper into the

oked ash tree, her magic still shaking lo

obbed beneat

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own mother

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isions di

never

he woods-a place even most wolves forgot existed. The moon hung

grazed the r

ng. Until the mark

ma

er

wasn't gone. That what had passed between them-whateve

loud, though no one was there to

Only wind thro

d a way of say

stepped away, jaw tight, tho

ke she could fold into herself and disappear. Her arms wrapped tight aroun

And right now, t

meant to

eant to bite

d her in like a tide. And now it pulsed

ed them to the mark beneath her r

," she whispered.

didn't make

he killer. The reason

who had looked at her like

prickled at her eyes, bu

hoose him," she

through the cra

mark sta

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