Bound to her destined alpha

ng soul caught in the spectacle. Clara stood in the center of the courtyard, barefoot, her once-white dress torn and stained with d

anymore. There wer

yes colder than the frost on winter trees. He looked down at her like she

e said, his voice calm, almost bored. "

oods," Beta Connor added, ste

led throug

y went to look for herbs. An

d, descending the steps with lethal grace. "You are a stra

racked, "I am s

s eyes, the color of midnight, scanned her face with quiet disdain

ment and that defiance lit some

hind them, "maybe we've puni

asn't finis

linched

audible. But it st

spe

his voice dropped to a dangero

she didn't bend. Not this time. "You can humiliate me

nce. The whole pac

cas str

n before she crashed to the ground, cheek blazing red with the stin

wd gasped. Someone

the faces. "Anyone el

le

ake her to the cells. Let h

s moved t

n it ha

ind s

, like static before a storm. Clara's breath hitched.

the groun

icking higher. Leaves swirled violently around her, cau

yes glowe

ontrol it. But something inside her

rmur. Beta Connor too

his eyes. "Wh

't wait to

e

her skin. The forest was alive tonight wind screaming, shadows dancing. Behind her,

idn't

coul

re, giving her speed she never had before. Her b

n she h

ca

through the t

eath c

rning, vision blurring. The

cl

eath her, a chasm of darkn

the clearing, his chest heaving, eye

erat

, stepping forward

wind howled around her, whipping her hair

eath just to escape me?" he

nothing left for me here.

nk I wan

made sure no one would ever see me as anything more than a stray. You

his eyes. Pain? Guilt?

k anymore,"

took a s

N

ge cru

ra

isappeared into the abyss, swallowed by m

.. si

h of the riv

echo of what

grounds, no one

cloak near the cliff's edg

was ev

hours, his hands clenched s

aid quietly behind him

said n

, the Alpha's breath

the night of the Blood Mo

br

si

is vi

rm she was alw

returns strong, powerf