ra
e guttural roar of a
t my small
e driveway in a brand-n
front door, wearing
a soft kiss to her cheek before they drove
, waving at them with a mass
my father's voice boom
ed dow
ting in his heavy
ding next to the w
of the table sat an
eld our family's most
d the latch and
ve shimmering, m
nst
hey held pure lunar energy and were used as high
ere the life saving
" my mother started, her tone completely casu
he box and scooped
or her dowry," she announced. "She
ttom of the stair
" I
in the air, sh
's head s
me?" he
lly into the
id, keeping my voice perfectly stea
face turned
yelled. "You're a disgra
ts. "I'm leaving this pack to find my own Mate. I
her st
ng warrior, and his physica
he wooden table; the iron box ju
ed. "An Omega demanding an inheri
ward, her eyes narrow
ng cruelly. "Who would want a pat
s, a dark suspicion
about Thorne
ther
stepping closer to me. "Are you stayin
e woman who ga
only a desperate need to prot
t Thorne," I said smoothly
a thick, shaking
in her ceremony, I'll kill
of heavy tires crunching on the
t door b
in, her arms full
k warriors were carrying boxes
ry had
cally danced int
opping her bags onto the sofa
yes widened w
the boxes the war
ged from pure silver-incredibly rar
ed silk and certificates for
nto her purse and pulled
d it to m
ned it, and I
massive b
ther said, her voice shaking with
lently by
single basket of basic winter supplies. No silver. No silk. No money. The contrast made my stomach turn with
parkling new diamond
lly noticed the tense
ring?" Seraphina ask
ed and pointed
nounced loudly. "She's refusing the borde
outh dropped
ed. "Elara, who on eart
in the room su
ut from behind t
, like a storm cl
ine, burning with a fu
slowly t
pha aura leaked out, making the
o back me up until my should
d, his voice dropping
lt the crushing weight
visible pressure that forced lower-ranking wolves
ritted my teeth and forced
h?" Thorne interrogated, his
d back
choked out against the he
shed with a dange
y. "I know you're trying to make me jealous
orld revolved around him. The dream had shown me this too-his bottomless ar
d not shown me w
zed it. It was not an animal. It was the sound of a monstrous, hea
eir heads toward t
d on its door in a stark, blood-red script was the crest of the Blood Eclipse Pack-the most ruthless, globall
or of the first
steppe
the ground, the entire
static in the air, the kind that precedes a lightning strike. It was the smel
oxicating thing I h
ammer against my ri
ins, a scorching heat sp
xiety and fear simply vanished, replaced b
soul had fo
the dream had awakened me, clawed her way to the surface of my min
i
e movement, pulling into sharp, severe creases. My parents' terrified gazes, Thorne's rigid stance of de
, with sharp jawlines, dark ha
y brushed a strand of da
city, but of pure recognition, shot straight down my spine. The soft carti
ice was a deep, velvet rumb
eyes, completely ignori
ed. "I've come to
eath in a pool of my own blood, and a final wish wh
seemed, had kept on
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