The Moon's Cursed Healer

sted like a nest of vipers. The royal hall was heavy with silence, the air too t

. On her twentieth birthday, she will

not name

ply asked for *a daughter*-as pa

no doubt. The beloved, golden daughter of the Alpha and Lu

lissa

be some monster's bride!" she'd wailed, her perfectl

therin

ld her. Co

ady settled on a far

yl

burden. The girl whose existence

uld be thei

He didn't know she existed. He wou

Layla was

ghts. She had vanished from her cell, the silver chains left behind, shatte

rous. This was

e-was fast approaching. A night when the young came of

t to be the fi

disappoi

could not shift, boun

ists clenched

ll," she hissed, pacing before the fire. "Everyone will see how useles

, her breat

akes. No mor

toward the guards f

he commanded, her v

ow

glance before one of them bow

into the vast stretch of forest beyond. Somewhere

even a

ould not

ed advisor. The only witch power

ough soft, carried th

n, I will make sure her

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