Moonborn bonds

ed my name once

my palm, and Kael's silver eyes blazed behind mine. I was coiled ti

have lon

deferential-tapped a

throat constric

and darkness, as if he'd forever be there. A

od thrown back to show his rumpled hair, still damp from the night air

en move back. I just unfaste

ere was more in him than that. There was somethin

ighten you," he said

dn't,"

ocked slightly. "You opened

n't me

s stirring. Quicker

of speaking. "Aunt Celes

didn't initiate the bond, Aria. Neither did you. But it exi

strong and unbreakable. As if something

d him, though my own heart

t mocking. It was calm,

t I didn't. I allowed him to sit beside me on the edge of my bed, the quiet betw

is the most feared in the region-feral, reclusive, and ruthless. My father, Alpha Corvan

his hands, as if he

t, yes, but how to feel, too. She was the only light in a land built of sh

crack on th

?" I sai

Manipulate fate to his heart's

ed. "Why do you

ld, I've dreamed of you. I didn't know it then. I believed that I was under a c

n't say that. You don

our courage. I know how the tattoo on your wrist thunders when I'm

ay, reeling

whispered. "The bond will grow. You'll sense everything-

I don't

w spreading across t

. "But you do get to choose who you are. And I

wer, he stepped ba

safe," he said. "Ther

e was

t long after his feet

gone, and Aunt Celeste's

aid softly over breakfa

ded an

ing a dangerous path, Aria. Kael may care for

"What happene

vered between u

id nothing. Then she set her cup down with a

being hunted by the packs. Your mother was giving birth

sked, even though I already knew th

pressing down on her eyes