g Woods. Behind me, the muffled sounds of the celebration faded into a haunting silence. My lungs burned, b

. It was my inner wolf, Nova, who had always been too timid, too

as sharp branches scraped against my bare arms

hispering Cliff. Legend said that wolves who fell here never survived the rocky rapids far below, and that

eaves behind me. Heavy, rhy

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my veins. He didn't want me, yet he was chasing me? To finish the humiliat

t at the very edge of the precipice. Loose pebbles tumbled o

rce, feral gold in the moonlight. For a split second, a flash of raw panic crossed his exp

Alpha voice vibrating with a desperate edge that didn'

ace him, the toes of my shoes hanging over the sheer drop. "What else is left for me here, Ja

utious step forward, his hand outstretched as if

voice sharp and steady. "You killed

a, do

l look into the eyes of the man who ha

in hell

lunging forward with

pulling me downward into the dark, freezing embrace of the night. The rushing wind roared in my ears, an

foreign-echoed not just in my mind, b

surv