THE ALPHA'S PROPHECY

loor, several thoughts swirling th

ce I let Abigail out.

sly as if clawing at the walls of her chest. Abigail's

s run,

ng an order. Sh

an exhausted sigh. Their world makes no sense.

moon, the constant music of streams threading through the land. She missed Aiden, Lupus, Maxin-their

d meaning. Rh

he

rything f

s weren't. Transforming was forbidden. Showing their true nature was dangerous. So Rowena had

uman world is like hiding

our fur," Abigail grow

behind their house stood empty,

Just th

bones cracked and reshaped, skin rippling as fur bloomed across her

oyful snarl and sprinted throu

ment was s

echoed through the forest.

ears pricked,

small clearing swallowed by shadows. In i

barel

pened ribs. Eyes

" Rowena whispered, shifting back and kneeli

what they can't explain-alwa

Rowena forced the latch open. The m

ered out... collapsed.

n-lean, powerful, around 5'6 with silky bla

lips curling into a f

o. And y

inked. "R

thing electric passed betw

w. But it unse

oing here?" she

is voice was bitter. "But safe

wolf too. It's been years s

have you b

xpressio

rs... and

outh parte

tly. "Dad married a woman from a rival line. The

rity among all wolves. Breaki

y," she w

es and added, "But listen, Rowena. Learn to blend in. This

've tried. Humans

here," he said crypticall

hifted into his wolf form

that... he

ered in her chest. A pull. A

-

tly in the kitchen, but her father sat rigid at the head of the table-jaw t

ite walls. Tall, tinted windows. An architecture that unsettled peo

asn't mu

red like she was a museum exhibit.

air's so

e she's from a

re

arp, too bright, too otherworldl

there w

Ella. Every insult was

umped her shoul

, Devil'

a sna

mind could intervene. She grab

LUPIVOR

nducing. Hallucin

ned to the principal's office. Her father

ted another student," the principa

nce the first day," the

oor, listening. Her father

. I've hea

without a ba

he end of her tim

was that Ella's b

nly the