The Carpathian Prophecy Of Alpha's Love

aring apart the dark sky. The full moon rode over them, long, bony f

cles tightening under his thick, grayi

ected part of the forest far from his pack and their disapproving glare. He

nd to the cycle of orbs in the sky. He took no pride or satisfaction in

all the silence of the ancient forest. They would only i

rward he s

e a moss-smothered boulder. Her long slender fingers worked with an elegant preci

ost, something he hadn't felt in so long. This being of radian

himself for thinking such gentleness

faint signs of her presence: sweet perfumes of l

ards, her eyes glow

imed, more shoc

urpris

s voice. The change welled

sneered, his voice coarse.

ked, her voice gentle. "You

Maybe, but not in the

tight, his senses shrieked in something between hunger and terror of ancient power un

oking at him and was fascinated. Elara stare

changing

air. It felt like a raw and cruel admission. He steeled himself fo

ed, fear mingling with f

n closer, her sandalwood and lavender scent tormenting his senses. She left him with such temptati

" Lerder's sens

redator, powerful and deadly, something monstrous. This wasn't him in his heightened perceptio

twig had indicated, a rasping sound that caught at Lerder's very bones. This wa

red, her words hardly loud eno

er chest, her wide, fearful, aw

ected Lerder's turmoil, it was fear that h

ed Lerder's body tight. It wasn't instinct; this was an i

is whisper barely heard but me

in overwhelming contrary impressions. A tremendous dark shape released from stand

o see shape in the dark, but the sheer power emanating from it was unmistakable. Lerder fel

hat eerily duplicated those in Elara's drawn book, symbols Lerder knew with a chilling certainty to be associated with a prophecy they couldn't decipher

, a spark of determination that caugh

Lerder

ough his restraint and curiosity. Fight that's all which made sense to him. Protect her, he wo

aling teeth too massive for any normal animal glinting in the crimson glow of its eye, which blazed with an inferno of menace. There w

stretched, battle ready. He would not allow it to hurt Elara nor

e!" Lerde

onster directly, his claws slashing a fre

stronger than Lerder had expected, its fl

s reflexes razor sharp, but his opponent app

agony to course through him that felt as though they laced to his very core. The old power emanated

th her eyes wide, That was an unfamiliar one, but there for him, he fought not merely to live but f

ith something happening. The scratching of claws, the gnashing of teeth, and the slamming

tage, with his fangs mere inches

Oo

disintegrating into dust. The fiery glow in its eyes disappeared, replaced by

with the intensity of the fight. Not merely stunned by the ann

logies had he witness

ad she

was

st consciousness as the light that saved them faded. Lerder crouched down