an ordinary ache in my body, it was a deep pulling sensation that came

, it seemed to come

breathing, th

I saw a strange face hovering over me. I opened my eyes clearly to see a tall but lean figure that loo

oftly. Stay still and don'

are

feless here in the woods, but luckily for you, I usual

hed through my side. My breath c

y's been through something fierce." You were burning up with a fever,

hesi

d slowly toward

"You're carrying life inside

in my ear. There was si

n. "No, that c

regnant, and I can te

a while. How could I be preg

and now his chi

oice. He rejected me, he said I was nothing. How

pen are things we may never understand. Fate doesn't bind us to what we want but

wn my eyes. "I

already happened and the child you c

stant trees, everywh

't kno

aintly. "Then l

-

into the mountain trails, to an old cottage nestled high above the

er a full moon t

with silver flecks in his eyes and a t

-for what I had lost an

ew one day, he'd want to

me. But she never

"The wolf inside you is restle

ning journey of

s from controlling my shift. How to breathe when rage threatened to unra

a staff. "You are now a mother and a fighter. You don't have t

n. Most times my muscles screamed at the constant pull, my wolf

for myself and my son. Because I didn't

-

iya handed me a small blade. It

taught me how to fight when the world tried

y m

are broken know how

hand and felt a part of

the moon and let my wolf rise. My shift was smoother no

omega-I was now a f

-

o in the wooden tub, which was unlike he

r the sound of water trickli

see her eyes widen, her

, standing at the

dn't a

ushed behind Leo's ear again, her expr

th

"It's the sa

t ma

ave-Leo has it too.

me, Mariya. What

, so hastily that I had to run after