The Alpha's Forbidden Blood

rough the canopy in slow, deliberate beams, setting the world aglow like a whispered omen. Liora moved through it wi

e. It was a promise. A

waiting

traight, shoulders sharp with power. His presence didn't just command attention, i

in her chest, not from fear, b

her. His golden eyes, wol

're

she replied, steppi

oon peaks. That wa

"You never said yo

e was unreadable, but his voice

. She believed him. She

he right things,"

e they'

or her hand.

her when she was broken, how they had lifted her from bloodied so

They whisper your name like it means something. Th

ded. "I

t have to thank me. Just stay

t too loudly

aid one day we'd stand here

smiled.

he

ng my every move. When the pack is

he did know. But she

you," she said.

u alive. That's m

ooked

in back. "Liora,

whispere

She melted into him because that was what he e

the warmth of his mo

river. Nyssa, the pack's h

n," Nyssa said. "Di

her head. "H

ays say

s it. He

er. "You don't need

dly. "But that

f it's

dn't a

owerful. But that doe

her. "Do you t

re in love. That'

ollowed, Liora's wo

before bloodshed. He praised her in front of ot

her she

y met in the old ruins b

rds were a shadow. His gr

ust them,"

t me," she

he only o

rd, because the alterna

on her neck. His s

no Luna cer

, she dar

it

th something colder than

romise

. I didn't say

. He softene

e to me than any cer

be seen.

fer in the

safer with m

s voice now low and

ze. "Or what? Y

id no

the answer

h rage, but with fear. Fear that

her den and st

ered. "Am I his, or

wer. But her wolf st

ng had

d not ignore