n's

ared a room, even though there we

't imagine mom is making you do this. She

isciplined. Even for her ow

Adrian that I wished she would just remarry, maybe have

say such a thing

th almost every respectable man, father inclusive."

id. "Mom would do what

ings sometimes, she forgets she is human and nee

pped my sword on, and put out my bedside

s. I can't describe what I felt as I traversed the normally busy and crowd

to myself as I headed t

ms, about four hundred of them. Some had always rem

ard was out of his post

ll I had to do was wait and watch, b

ants have coming, saving the palace from their infiltration in

a hybrid slave who

me out there all alone, there were g

nto their building. It's the second time I was assigned

ight was a bit cold, and quite dark too. For som

e till they need me first." A voic

cannot be too rigid with everything." Another v

hem as they approached. It t

the most said. He knew a little too much. But that

ttention to him. "May I ask what you are doing

lied. "I'm Zathen, And it doesn't say "Zat

, I knew better than to challenge him,

saw earlier in the palace's main living

" She st

protector instincts in Zathen, make him feel defenseless, em

e those were rare, almost once or twice in one's lifetime will

Zathen, but I didn't show. I dragged the girl

strong, but I was tal

said, as he turned right back, and lashed me acros

was sure he took a

eked, and

ct of the last assault, he was on me, leaping higher than I ever saw anyone do, h

urvive it, so I left my lif

!" The girl said, try

so hard, I heard h

was

d on me from the Great Beyond. After landing a fatal blow to

my grasp, and in a heartbe

happened till his re

over, but n

ht of the moon seemed to pierce me, it hurt so bad I dropped to my charr

al had come over me. A raw screeching howl escaped

nisingly, and my muscles tear apart,

t out of my skin, long sharpened claws replace

enced the night. I had my wolf! The wo

had to fi

re she lay lifeless, enveloped between the fence of th

eaving the servants unguarded, and ran with her in m

s ago, maybe it was the adrenaline, or the tra

w maid in hand. As soon as she obliged and opened the door to her room, I dumped Emi

war leaving him lying there.

d, but I was too fast, an