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. The air smelled of damp wood, blood, and something else-something wild. She tri

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s snapp

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tst

ed her head

eyes were piercing-a predator's gaze. Scars lined his arms, proof of countless bat

gu

n a den o

her, his sharp features

is voice edged with amusement. "Another minut

at dry. She tried to sit u

ice was hoarse,

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tensed. Crescent Moon. The name alone

, expecting them to k

c only st

exiled," h

t night flashing through her mind. The bet

es

laric's lips. "Then we h

an die here, weak and broken. Or..." His eyes gleamed in the firelight.

curled into the

e

h to be thrown away. Weak enough to

r ag

ignoring the pain bur

ach

rk widened.

the moment sh

than she ever had before. He taught her to fight without rules, without hesi

night as she lay panting in the dirt, bruises covering he

th and pushed herse

he me

who had pleaded for her mate's love-was fading. In he

d never

ger. She could fight three rogues at once and

night, she hea

rule. Her father, once the proud Beta, h

taken ano

flames of the campfir

d have fe

d have be

her roared to life

he had never existed. Li

own sharper, her muscles stronger. The girl

them to meet the th

on warrior neve

orthern border, a smug look on

moved behind him, her blade flashing in the moonlig

ound, gasping, choki

ie, waiting for t

ever

to the earth. His eyes were wide with shock, his hands grasping at the de

him, watching. Not with

certa

had thrown a

who she

before his body stilled. The only noise le

her feet. The night stretched before her, endl

nto the forest, leaving behi

the Ro

e clearing where the rogues gathered. Alaric stood near the

k early," h

ething onto the g

rrior's insignia.

d approving murmurs. Some looked surprised.

ake it he didn't put

her voice steady. "He

sound. He sheathed his knife and

spond. She di

life. And she had done

ent Moon had exiled

somethin

knife when a rogue scout rushed into the c

the body," h

tely-the way the rogues leaned in, the

Moon?" Ala

ne of their warriors is dead.

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rf

nder. Let t

asn't done. N

he would s