BENEATH THE MOON'S BITE

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filling the scent of my bed sheets. The kind of smell that only means one thing: something's coming, not

rly, like she always did on full moon days. She never said why, and I stopped ask

e with the moon, then shift with the stars and afterwards find your place under the sky and accept it. But my skin was already

My heart was thudding like I had run a mile in my dreams or maybe I had, maybe I was runni

I couldn'

asting about bloodlines they didn't earn, and laughing about how weak Omegas were, how they should be culled

ike a Beta today, at le

t crooked fence we carved our initials into years ago. His

, and somewhat beautiful, with an aura that screamed 'born to command', b

fore I spoke

asn

eside him, trying not to wince as th

mile I forced, like he could hear my thoughts, but Rafe

t hold f

d it felt unusually light, "S

"Oh it's nothing.

rrowed, "No

y longer, "I feel like I'm

ent

d in closer, and I could smell him...cedar and storm winds, it felt familiar and safe. We lay in silence,

est giving way to a new dawn, for me, then the moon emerged t

screamed in pain, Rafe was shouting my name, holding

!....this was t

and all I saw was silver light, then last thing I

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shadows across the clearing, my clothes were shredded and my limbs h

nt.....

t Beta o

as O

gold, his wolf felt just beneath the surface an

ak, but a branch snapped b

w felt cold and electric, Rafe

t the chance to

from the trees and ever

...........

in my atmosphere even

skin, or the way my heart slammed agai

iet, even in the dead of night, I should've heard owls or the wind or someo

e moon, and this s

y air. I couldn't remember how I got here, but the last thing I recalled was Rafe and I leaning into each other, no talk just sky gazing and then suddenl

..bla

aming, something had changed, I could feel it in my blood. My body felt a li

melled it again

sce

h. I knew that scent, I'd smelled it on the others, on the ones we weren't supposed to talk a

eg

hoked, "N

ees b

ed to be a beta or worse yet and Alpha,

he truth in every beat

urvive long, then I heard a snap behind me, I t

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rd, his eyes were glowing in the moonlight like a storm about to break.

y chest, not out of fear

everything inside me went still. My skin felt like it was buzzing and I could smell his now rich,

orward and I

" I whi

oarse, "Luca...

am, but the words got caught in my throat

ing, I doubled ove

a heat surged through me, centered low and burning.

ng to his knees, his hands grippe

I gasped. My whole body convulse

saw it, there was a change in h

ho

ds were trembling on my skin,

through me I thought I'd explode, my back bowed, and every n

rywhere now, and

pressed

You're...your scent....", and then his lips were at my neck

d, "Ple

you know what yo

d what was going on, but one thing was