Naomi Reborn: The Luna's Vow

truth would emerge if you

ade her

n Ash Pack's old meeting hall, she

aged dust and dried herbs settled like dust in her lungs. Crates lined

same bitter-tasting trace of wolf

ty. Someone had sent that note.

f folded tunics. She paused. I

e cloth. Underneath was an iron leather pouc

Three o

htly sealed, b

was of the same type that had been used

rating with her enemies. Perhaps giving th

e pouch and shov

er, a vo

ldn't be

mi

ics. Barely eighteen. Alway

e face. "I was searching

n at the pouch

t appear to b

hem moved fo

htened. "Wha

Something that was nev

er voice low. "You kn

at her sides. "No. But I saw someo

ho

ure. They were fast. Covered in a c

ly. She was indeed tellin

them again, info

sked. "You're

i pa

an that." And if you want to survive what's

ed but nodd

 off without

under the stars, fingers squeezed on the lea

gettin

low and ponderous. She

l

e said, plopping down o

lowing me," s

d. "This i

the pouch

it. His ey

ms," she said. "Someone here's i

e glowered at the vi

ded. "When you discovered me that evening

mitted. "Your eye

attention to him. "Why

did when he was seeing someone wh

other died because I trusted the wrong wolf. I was

re to keep your

wat

owly. "What d

er. "A ghost who isn't

more than she

tend," she said in a whisper. "I don

you choose to

d on her mind. The ache of betrayal. The sting

t ready t

return," she

d. "To Cry

I need to see what's changed. If

lex interrupted, his tone sharp

eyes m

I lost," she said quietly. "You w

d out through the 

it too long. Ghosts fade, Naomi. And 

ay, leaving her behind with the

e wrapped like an old, forgotten song, one that had once brought her comfort, now feeling unearthly instead. She had

ipt Alex had read haunted her as she gaze

re she lived

it is all

ide her coat. The wolfsbane vials. They were a c

come for

been her everything. The man who had picked h

ented the air. It wasn't just that the

e Pack territory. Her excitement and anxiety roiled within her. It had been six days since

signs of life. It was late, but for the past several nights sleep had eluded him. Every inc

His heart told him to head for the border, but hi

cratching at him didn'

, sharp and rec

him br

 her figure, familiar but different. Her eyes, once soft, now had a sharpness he hadn't expected

whispering, his feet mo

Didn't speak. J

between them, t

er voice firm, chilling

e of her words knocking the wind out of him ha

tears, she finished for him. "I was your

t emerge. And he hadn't been able to

ice firm this time. "Why wasn't

p toward her, but Naomi raised a hand a

I'm not that weak woman anymore."

d he'd ever known. His wolf howled within him, but

i," he said, his voice hoarse. I

nterjected, glaring in

ween them intolerable. "You didn't see the eff

tant, then settled again. She shook her head. "Yo

was in the air. "I'm

terly. "That is all you ar

what to do. This was Naomi, and it wasn't. She had died, and now t

ian said. "I thought I'd lost y

the torrent of emotions she'd been staving off. Gritting her teet

everything, Dam

ears of unsaid things, unshed tears. An

ftly, avoiding his eyes. I came back

his chest. "You're not a gh

ive. And I'm going to make sure t

alive. And everything he thought he knew ab

raitors," Damian said, moving

she looked at him. "I don't

to the woods, leaving Damian st