ed Lyla all the

her heart, iit was a physical weight pressing agai

w corridor, as she put her ha

urred repeated

ars just to se

ing

ly reached her

badly that she c

familiar smell of old lavender and cheap soap. The tiny room had

und. At her wor

and the little mirro

owned could f

that hurt alm

n's re

r entire life se

they decided sh

an

ke everythin

an five

," she whispe

ded strange, s

red Kieran'

face again,

wallow

ll me if

on to believe h

old canvas ba

egan stuffing

graph and the few coins she had managed to save over the years. Th

nausea

he barely made it to the washbas

ss finally pass

bling.this w

and her wolf stirred but not with the familiar

ething pr

with her ey

o!

iately returne

That night Kieran had returne

ebrating with h

r had been fille

sandalwood, a

n working la

the strange p

he came

understoo

er ha

been something

her of them ha

take.One secret she had b

mained over

d it

She counted the days and

caught in

sibility was terrifying but beneath the fear

the Silver

Alpha who had j

er un

er mouth to st

ld change.He would come after her not because he loved

a like Kieran w

sappear into t

ssion harden

n neve

th hands again

eject

eject

pped down

gravel outside her room.Lyla's

Men, several of them.

his men to mak

e couldn't let

possibility of a chi

abbed h

no time

pen the narr

truck her face, she dropped into the

ugh her body,

ran.Not towar

she knew the village better t

rough narrow a

ed cottages, a

Her lungs bur

amed with every step

wenty-one years

ight, she would

he white cliffs as she approached the Norther

had cl

ha rul

d to roam benea

ntless wolves

n its

better than ret

the edge of

d for only

w thundered th

cross it.S

right

a f

oice came fr

y turned

of Kieran's

ms were crossed over his chest, a c

ought you coul

ned her gri

ser" she said through gritte

laug

d you had

pped c

I'd make sure

happens to O

i

backe

ome any

ile wi

you goin

nes cracked, his body twiste

f stood b

whimpered

uldn't

r the re

t

f lunge

run so she did the

d. The cliff disappe

ying second, t

h her.

hrough her hair

the ragi

yl

l faded a

er as cold swal

ripped fro

violently bene

each the surfac

ed her

ngs sc

rength

and instinctiv

oma

ct th

came like a

survive, I promise as d

far behind h

d Moon, the S

ebrating the r

ificant

know she was

now about the

ide

nly didn't know

wn away would

Lyla th

powerful eno

t ever rejec