la Cr

n the training grounds in my nightg

sleep agai

. "I have three days, Marcus. Three days to

ed his chin lightly on top of

s own wolf, a huge dark brown beast with burning amber eyes, and circled me slowly, nudging me with his head as if h

ng wo

, shaking with anger at myself, a

I choked. "

not caring that his shirt was torn and his s

"Whatever the council decides, you are my

badly to b

as silent, but I cou

Selene came to my

opened without a knock. My sister walked in wearing soft yellow dres

ly. "It's an old recipe from the healer's

you care abou

d a cup of golden-brown tea, and the s

almost perfect. "I know we haven't been close. But you're my sister

oment, I almos

the cup toward me. "All of it.

, and the steam

it,* my wolf

dropped

ot kill you, but it will lock me away even deeper. You w

looked at my sister ov

I thought. *She is try

ng?" Selene asked

It smells lovely. Could you open

er back was turned, I tipped the whol

d around, the

her eyes gleamed with tri

til her footsteps faded.

black, as if the plant had been poisoned to

d. My own sister had just tried to de

ould cry and deny everything. Marcus was kind, but he would look at me with the same careful p

o stay silent

he trial, I couldn't

d a scarf around my head, slipped out through the east door, and walked into the f

was silver with frost, sat down on a f

I whispered. "I don't kno

hey want,* said my wolf. Her vo

d. "Why were you sile

I was sealed. My power was too great for your b

y for

you were b

Silver light began to leak out from under my scarf, bright enough to

a, s

he full moon is pulling at t

light died away. The clearing went da

heard f

the moonlight on the other side of the clearing. One was a slim girl in a

y the way she wal

"She's never that obedient. But it doesn't matter, because she's still

His voice was deep and roug

become Luna." Selene smiled. "I've w

el word she had ever said to me suddenly made se

he man sai

oze. "Wha

and rain. That is the Alpha's scent." He turned his hooded face toward the log w

and his scent still clung to my skin and my

went pale in

e man said calmly. "