Under the second moon

and six Alphas stopped b

all. The wind was brutal up here, cold and full of blue moonlight. It made my new dress whip around my legs, le

ates that had never fallen in t

x

d moon Alphas. My brot

What I saw were god

ulders, scar splitting left eyebrow. Eyes flashed blue, n

on scalp, ice-blue eyes, lean like snake. He held sp

aybe twenty, but shoulders broad as doors,

hair braided with bones, matching blue crescent sca

ir covering face, and when wind moved it, I saw eyes completely blue, no

. Run for hours. Cl

athing when I s

nd in fro

stopped because he said my human name. How

pulling me close

, Alpha voice shaking stones. "She is in my territory.

ook at Kael. Couldn'

years. "You howled. We heard you. Queen's Howl. We thought second

amed of you eighteen years. Blue light in cribs. Mother said we had s

wins said together, creepy

aside instantly, like he was their Alpha, though all were A

de chest without so

ven cribs. That night. I was in crib next to yours. I watched them

. Flash. Seven cribs in cold stone room, seven babies crying, one baby girl in middle

voice echoing off wall, making e

htened painfull

pped closer to edge, loo

your name

because I never speak. But I speak

whole body shuddered when

ly dropped to one

d him. Because wo

. Then, last, slowly, like cost everything, Rook knelt too, i

side, Kael's warriors had knelt earlier

ad knelt for m

"No. They kneel to her. She makes them kn

ed. "I didn't mean to!

jealousy and awe. "That scares me. You don't

up from kneeling,

e without pups, without pack. Then you howled. Command us, Queen. What do you want? Do you want fortress? We will give you fortress. Do you want Kael Blackthorn dead? We

r flashing blue. "She is not going

blue with rage. "She is ours! Our sister! Our Queen! Y

r so you would know terr

than shouting. He stood, blue eyes turning black. "You

dress!" Kael roa

against one plus whole fortr

to s

tearing at dress, silver dagger hidden in thigh str

ge again. Not kneel

oug

ish. Second

a Va

rothers

wave, rolling down wall, over gates, over six k

lus Beta - dropped to both knees, heads bow

undreds - dropped to belli

glowing, blue eyes bla

red terrified and pro

brothers, at Kael who hated kneeling more than

zed what I

t tainted human. No

kneel with one word. Qu

toos - black tribal marks covering neck and chest - were starting to glow faint blue at edges, like my veins. Like second moon light was seeping into hi

s bowed head, my glowing hand on his black hai

exploded from my palm into his skull, so bright Mara scre

rolling white, then blue, then bl

sideways, still on knees, shaking violent

t are you doing to him? S

with word and touch together. You are turning him. Like first Queen turned first Alphas to second moon wolves with kiss. You

anymore. They were blue rimmed with amber, swirling like galaxy, like mine, with silver fle

his and his wolf's, just like mine. His claws, which had been

at what I had just done without meaning to, without permis

thless Alpha in north, into what I was. A