Moonlight Betrayal

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allow, sweat slick on his skin

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, he felt it - a tug. Deep inside his chest. Primal. Feral.

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n the torchlight as she stood at the window of her war chamber

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handle

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in," Dax said under his

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at form burn

ped toward him, e

me. Everything wo

ell s

in the center of the sigils and raised

as the transformation started - not the full

in stretched. His muscles

e trees, and for a moment, the

in front of the council - twelve w

he said. "You know

mane, narrowed his eyes. "You expect us to b

believe," Kaida said. "

d we fear a broken Alpha? You saw

"And I'm telling you,

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s fingers. "What wo

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o call in d

gh the next moon cycl

round the chambe

r the mountains, Ryker stood atop a c

ark jewel below, its spires aglow with torchlight,

ransformation - he wasn't ready. But en

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wer sang i

gle howl - long,

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her chambers, Kaid

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