Alpha Heir: Mask Of The Moon

gging her lungs, as the training cir

g around her, a grin spreading across his face. "You

brushed it away with the back of

other, face set in a scowl of hurt indifferen

spinning to take out his legs. He went down with a caught-off-guar

'd

ai

ll would m

langed out from the inner walls.

t bell rang but once. And

fa

s where the scent of herbs and blood hung in the air like rot. Her father, Alpha

e did not want to hear. "Po

m. "He will not return, Lyra. A ne

order themselves into something

ith a hard smile. "But the laws are

so heavy it bru

f the bloodlines available will be sent to Nigh

left before sh

id not

id no

father's still hand,

ee

ys to di

to become s

not let a girl fig

a boy w

*

in her room di

on cheekbones to smash the line of her face. Her breast tight compresse

his eyes

arried hi

heirlooms. It smelled of smoke, pine, and something long buried. She clipped the

swathed in the fog. No guards. No farewells. Only one figu

mo

ly, eyes raking the boy her daughter had

e Alpha,"

*

m said anythin

ssed something cold into Lyra's palm

they expect," she pa

an and bone, towers radiating softly with moon-forged flame. Lyra-now Lior-fought under an assume

ould

m now-proud, brooding, for

nside were boys with sharp teeth and sharper egos, posturing

houldered wolf with a scar ru

owed as they

new,"

nswered low, mimicking the

a warning. "Goo

up trouble. She could

d no room f

y w

*

didn't was

e central stone court, where the headmaster stood atop a

and thunder. "This is not a school. This is a crucible. Only the strong

he group, lingered a m

e been matched up. Survive, and we

r ran throu

rv

at the edge of the field, revealing a dense forest wrapped in morning fog and

"Stalk what stalks you. Retur

were c

she heard hers-Lior Thorn-paired

ght before. The one who spoke as steel on stone and

rf

ords, one map, and one

ped into the Vale, t

as they fought through the underbrush. "It's

aid no

ng glance. "You don't

aste words," she said i

fight like you've she

dn't r

se sh

t the time to

in the bran

a s

tearing. Kade shouted. Lyra didn't hesitate. She launched herse

er-veined wolf-beas

r deep into its ribcage. It screamed, a guttural, hum

ff with a brutal s

. Heavy. Bre

her, eyes wide.

recog

efore," he said,

er blade free, blood

n't?" she

for one long, s

he sm

the weakest link