Alpha Blood,Royal Heart

g crown tossed to the sky. Its pale light sifted through the gnarled br

thick and wild the kind that made every hair on my skin stand on end,

pulled me a magnetic tug beneath my ribs

cut through the nig

fr

hair gleaming like black silk. His eyes, the sharpest blue I'd ever seen, lock

be here," he said, vo

aught in a web of fate I didn't

rhythm of the forest. Something ancient stirred in

whole world is about to ch

e trees, where a second figure emerged tall, fierce, and raw, with

a

ro

should have

oon, everything blurred

late, that my life w

phecy h

he silence a signal. Lucians jaw tightens, Riven's eyes flash. And from t

me this night will mark the beginning of ever

ing a prelude to the storm I didn't know was coming. I stood frozen, heart pounding as the eyes in th

h the silence again, low and

ng louder in the underbrush. The pack was gathering, and I

here, alone, in the middle of the royal pack's for

l the night my blood started burning and my senses sharpened beyond belief. That was when the drea

blood moon's watchful e

ed faintly in the moonlight symbols I didn't understand but could feel vibrating against my skin. "They're here fo

The pull in my chest grew stronger like something deep inside was

y catching the moonlight like stars. "You carry the blood of the ancient line," he said

pped out before I could

rm on my neck, and despite the danger, a strange comfort bloomed the

hoed, the word t

estors spoke of a Luna born from a human's blood a bridge between

omething from a bad fantasy novel. But then the pack's howls

ng between man and wolf with fluid grace. I caught glim

was the

s voice suddenly fierce.

ndergrowth. My pulse spiked. Every step felt like I was s

resence both a shield and a challenge. I couldn't deny the attraction sim

trees, the clearing ah

athed in moonlight. In the center, a figure k

hat?" I w

ned. "Our enemy. And

as cold and fierce as winter ice. A wolf's snarl twis

Lucian said, voice

ripped the air, claws slashed through

. I wasn't just a pawn or a prize. I was a force one that would de

ue who sto

my life. But before I could react, a searing pai