MOONBOUND HEARTS

there,

id it like it was nothing or the way Silas had looked a

betrayal sat heavy in m

aring into the flames like he hadn't j

it. That was

e. Power burst out of me before I could stop it. It

. His back slammed into the edge of the firep

and just like that, the anger dra

n to

cracked as I dropped

up slowly. He wasn't bleedin

he ground, wide-eyed and sha

. But something else entirely, fear... and

" I asked, my

and let me help

on't get to do this," I sa

then sell me off and act like it's for my own good.

een thrown from, rubbing his forehead like he was t

u don't understand A

t!" I shouted out

r, Alina," he said fin

rder than any bl

e if I'd heard h

s... they were powerful wolves, they were not from Ashgrave. They

, tears filling

en born during a blood moon. One with power strong enough to either

my head like that would make i

gs happened when you got upset. Even as a kid. Your parents knew people would come for yo

the floor, my back against the

our power too early, I couldn't get close, I couldn't show you lov

my face, and I didn't bother to wipe them a

our power's waking up, and the wrong people will feel it. They'll come for you, Alina. The deal with

were still going to han

n't de

body was shaking, but my voice ca

up thinking I was nothing. And now I'm suppose

le

offered to teach me how to contro

and for the first time, he looked lik

ad, maybe

to sit around grievin

at Douglass said was true then staying here would o

r how to control it. And every time somethi

ent wasn't far. I didn't take anything

stance between me and this place

ck's territory when I smelled some

ing fast from the old storage building. It was a bui

ing quickly. Just immediately, I heard the

hen I got close enough, I

of, and the heat was unbearable. But I didn'

but I heard coughing toward the back of th

e

under a fallen log. She looked up at me li

, her voice hoars

her side and tried to move t

panic. "I-I c

I snapped. "Le

. This time, I felt the

ded it. My body responded, a pulse of energy pushed

, I helped Lena to her feet and

ing badly, but we got out just

h of us gasping for air. I wiped the

shaken an

id after a long silence. "I've tr

I replie

as w

e ash off my legs. "Gla

ude, but I didn't ca

ashamed. "Thank you. For

re we

ving her nothing el

N'S

ith Alina, I had not been ab

s we shared, my wolf craved it every da

her his, damn I wa