phin

ffocating silence fell over the castle for the next two days. It was the

e the mating bond, the castle was filled with

n, my father summoned m

hip in his right hand. His hand gripped the leather-wrapped

ed dangerously

you will not breathe a word about the na

he stone floor, the sharp sou

weapon, feeling no fe

ectly steady. "But you'd rather let my mother lock me in silver

t the mention of the underground ce

the door opened and my

rrior uniform, lookin

sighed. "Becoming the Luna of the Supreme Pac

harsh, moc

tting corpse, would you still

and he opened his mouth to

em and walked out of the study

as covered in gold plat

a Dominic, a large man with dark

Mother, an older woman w

d nervously near the

ake parchment registry and

name Celeste written on the p

yes. She knew. She had always known the name was wrong, but

uiet sigh of relief f

on the wooden table a

ly against the stone floor,

ked straight towar

a dead girl," I announced, my voice ri

the pocket of m

ed, the clean moonstone amulet I had taken back from

tone against the polished oak silenced every whisper in the hall.

ercing scream from the

r chair over, and lunged f

her path, using her body to block

erupted i

fist onto the table, the

his Alpha's Command freezing the lower wolves in the roo

e of his voice, forcing myself to

e cemetery," I told the Alpha coldly. "If

hysterically, pointing

he cried out. "You're st

ther, my patience

dead," I stated, my words cutting

aising her hand to

e, I was

d her wrist in mid-air,

ther vibrated, a fine, high-pitched hum rising from its rim. My mother flinched as if struck, her breath catching

ion was coming, but I was fi

ression was no longer fury. It was something far more dangerous-curiosity. He was

*

ini

k as the guards dr

entire farce-stirred for the first time in years. A low, dangerous rumble vi

ere

d her silent, and she had spoken anyway. She had look

y had forced on her. But beneath it, for the briefest moment when she had shout

y envoy with

ed. "And when she comes of age, I wa

and disappeared

w tight. The contract was nullifie

rst time in a decad