AN
birthday celebration, but I wanted nothi
, a day I was to finally be mated to my one true love
to be the beginning of the
phecy child they had all been hoping
rmation from the Moon Goddess. It was meant to be the happiest d
ther, whom I adored and wished to be like, speak to the
d my heart fluttered
happened
while we were trying to make sen
under
sounds of footsteps echoed in m
bers were the last thing I
pped from my forehead into the deep gash above my brow. My eyes
pack members repeated after Richard, the man who, until
hed to be like him when I rule ov
d to be my protector. He made me believ
to block out the pain blari
ly burned my skin. If it weren't for the pain I was
uldn't
in the corner of my eyes. I pressed my lips together and
and vengeance fo
ts." Richard echoed to the crowd, waving the mantle
rs. I can only succeed if you, the good
ehind me. My heart jumped.
attacked. Her anger and authority pulse t
maddening than being
ptly and whipped around. Anot
lpha all this while, but he was no Alpha wolf. Before I w
Luna's position because she loved him an
hase, see that everything is in place and re
moment plunged a silver dagger into my back, I beli
h to Mom, who had collapsed, when Cha
what was happening, he kicked and stomped me with
ange, but at least he wasn't the man I'd though
n no one did. I trust
se? I wanted to rip him to shreds. At the moment,
r. She began to thrash in the
me. I only needed her to break f
Richard let out a haughty bark of laughter,
and she gets it," he wa
her struggle to move. I shut my eyes and fier
ver? I had awoken once again to my perfect family and life and was r
nd excited, and so was Richard. He even gave me a speech that morning, claimi
he couldn't wait to experience the great thing I would a
returned with t
at them. Her voi
me so hard my
He screamed. "Shut
em, but those foolish elders will ne
stomped to Mom. I bit back a smile. He had fa
ed, grabbing her by the c
the room had been sunction
. Yes, that Chase was able to fool her into thinking they were m
eyes w
our cockiness." He declared
t I caught the glint of a blade just bef
breath ceased. Time froze, but just for me. Because unsatisfied, Richard retrieve
d body topple to the ground. 'Alanna, remember the
. I didn't realize that the screams
erful that the building shook a
d me hard. I didn't feel it. Pure, unfiltered ra
the bloody dagger on my neck a
I let out another piercing scream. He plunged t
ry up with me. I wanted everything t
ast words kept repeating in my hea
n't want to stay alive. I was a
her words kept on repeating in my head. St
e Prophecy. But those words
way and were arguing about so
some of the elders whom they
My throat was parched. Water.
ir against my face. I wanted to ignore it, but
in its direction. Moonlight streamed in
things had gone according to plan, I was supposed to be
s time they came with so much i
icence of the moon. At first, I found myself lea
whatever you can to stay alive, Alanna. Mom
window. I got to its edge soon enough, but I was too
ase said
umped up and threw myself out. As I fell to what
n't come back here until you've either pierced her hear
mpact with the ground. But I couldn't sit down to
d. My survival. I needed to live. I needed to stay al
tire existence. My several injuries, though, made
hed mysel
ry to me, but it didn't matter
dary. Behind and all around me, I heard hunti
wouldn't stand a chance. I skidded
my most painful. I was disoriented f
ain of, no one in Ivory Moon h
me down, but I would
the boundaries of allies and e
no matter how hard I tried to shake
hunt. I had broken a dozen c
was that my ene
hat I had only heard rumors of. They were supposed
as I thought that I was home free, something lunged at me. Giant
tried to hobble away.
didn't you?" Chase panted, st
myself to shift, too, b
ggered backward but stopped when I real
istle, and at once the rogues surrounding me l
histled again. They stopped. He knelt
used. Then smiling he held up my wolf's head
fted back to m
ked sob at the
ing me to the very edge of the cliff. "It's
ade into my chest
one-word plea to the M
I needed was to be rei
was too
t the Moon Goddess was nonexi