ra

ng, empty sort of peace. My work, my efforts, my very pre

y thing of value was the little moonstone wolf, sitting on my nightstand, cast

inst my skin. With a click, I switched it off.

cklace he'd given me after my first successful hunt. A bundle of dried moonpetal flowers he'd picked for me from the sacred mea

. Page after page of Alaric. Alaric training, Alaric reading, Alaric laughing-a

his large frame making my world feel small and safe. "You are not a burden to

the other wolves treated me with a measur

s scrawled at the bottom: "Stay with Blackw

to the paper, smudging the

ped it in half. Then the next, and the next. The sound of tearin

he arrival of a powerful wolf. I stepped out of my ro

ere, pulling her into a warm embrace. It was a casual, possessive gest

hadows above. A triumphant smile played on her lips. She whisp

with poison. "Alaric and I are so happy you'll be here t

a bed of satin, was a delicate bracelet. It was fas

into our blood, and prevented our healing abilities from working. Even the smalle

instinctively.

s gaze was hard, his voice laced with the undenia

ill, forcing my hand forward ag

ur future Luna," he

touched my skin, a sharp, white-hot pain shot up my arm. It felt like

widened. "It looks

ragile ember of hope inside me died. He hadn't just taken back his affection; he ha

as I forced the wo

o my room, the silver thorn on my wrist a constant