d figure d

like dry leaves scraping across stone. The mask h

art hammering a

nes cracked, fur ripped through his skin, and his blac

and Aiden's wolf staggered back

ed to his knees, shifting b

a shouted,

ood at the corner of

a didn

st

anger. Her body started to tremble, not from fear, but from someth

his hand again but this t

cracked li

the cloaked figure back ten feet. Trees swa

e-eyed. So did th

I just do?" A

s bones snapping back into place. He his

l be. And when the blood moon rises in seven ni

ed in a cloud

ped to h

Her blood buzzed

er voice shaking. "I don't

ng her close. His heartbea

d... it's real. You're not just some lost

don't want to be a queen. I

said softly

ked up

I was a coward. But

perate. Like he was trying to make up f

kissed h

moment d

ugh the trees with guards. "Alpha Aiden! You'

od, shiel

rogue. She'

rous!" the elder snapped. "She's a

ed my life,"

been seen in over a century," the elder b

guards gr

re still shaking. Her body was

at Aiden as they

her, fists cle

red and heavy in the sky, Ava knew