lowed Seraphina's wo
staring at the two people who had just ripped my entire world apart.
n something shifted inside me. Something raw and furious that had
ime. My voice cracked but held.
red for just a moment.
o foreign it barely felt like my own. "You just crawled
ll looking at me like I was the inconveni
waited and endured the whispers, the pity, the shame of being the Alpha's daughter who couldn't shift and through a
or the first time, I saw a fli
swore it, Kaelen." My voice broke on his name. "Was i
deliberate calm as if my entire world wasn't crumb
away. "I gave you everything. My trust, my heart and my future. I believed in us even when I couldn't
's nature correcting a mistake. You can't be his Luna. You can barely even be a w
d hit me like a s
spers about you constantly. 'Poor Winora.' 'What a shame.' 'The Alpha's firstborn and she can't even shift.' You're
d taught to braid flowers into crowns. Not the girl I had protected from bullies and comforted through heartbreak
e realization dawning like poison. "Haven
be the golden child, the one who would make our family proud but you became nothing but a source of shame. So yes, when
me want to claw at my own skin. "The rejection has been spoken, Winora.
it. Only a hollow, aching sound that seemed to echo off th
el. "We're simply acknowledging it. Now " She gestured toward the door. "The f
mate and my sister and
nother wo
in that room a moment longer. The walls were closing in, the
startled looks from passing servants. I didn't care. Let them see. Let
open, and I didn't hesitate. I ran into the night into the forest
ing at my arms and face, roots threatening to trip me, but I didn't slow. I couldn't. The p
re and then, somewhere in the de
earth, my body shaking with sob
h
in my mind, unansw
sn't I
he had always been there but she had been silent, sle
ending. It was like being set on fire from the inside out, my bo
th, my fingers digging furrows into the soil as the shift took me. I had heard stories of
sed too long and now she was breakin
through skin. The world around me sharpened to scent and sound flooding my senses in overwhelming waves. I could smell eve
uman. I was a wolf now a large, golden brow
g slightly. The world looked different through her eyes sharper, more vivid, infinite
growled. "He chose anothe
forest blurred past me as I raced through it, my paws e
Pack from the wild lands beyond. I had never been here before. The border wa
the water, and for a moment, I just stood there, staring at the opposite shore then I saw a man or what looked l
back to the life that was waiting to destroy me but som
the icy water swimming across with a speed I hadn't known I possessed. T
to, the transformation faster now, more natural. I crawled ont
lood matting his dark hair and bruises coloring his pa
, no, no " I reached out, my fingers brushing
t through my entire body. A golden thread erupted from
ter's betrayal, the fear of what awaited me back at the pack faded into
he darkness at the edge of the world, touching a dying stra
ent ago gave a single weak thu
at
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