Claimed by thr Alpha

the trees like a warning

from her hands that wasn't hers. The frigid water bit at her skin, but she

The moon was hidden behind a shroud of clouds, just like it had be

d to survive her f

t according

e a whip, and her shoulders stiffened. It was B

g dark hair, tangled and unkempt, spilled over her back like a veil. Her wrists were still red from the ropes t

te." Elric's eyes ran over her like she was so

d followed, because

of age would shift under the Goddess's light and present their wolves for the

Lyra, the orphaned child of unknown lineage, the girl born on a moon

she was

braided hair and gowns stitched from moon-silver thread. Boys with armor etched in pac

d them w

t even smell

r mother ran

owned her when the

chest. She didn't cry. Not anymore. She'd waste

commanding. "Tonight, the Goddess will mark her chos

curling in disdain. "And let th

-wild, eager. The pack crave

" Dren

s and stood in her shift, barefoot, trembling. The earth beneath her f

meone yelled, and L

ouds hadn'

was no

... something.

ky-Lyra stood alone, unmoved. Her blood felt like fire in her veins. Her breath ca

her chest li

l to he

ack l

s fai

as no

the air

hollow so sudden, so t

orches fli

ra scr

gony. No

rel

silver like the others. Not golden like Dren's heirs. Th

ey snapped open-glowi

n she f

wo

ta

lo

pa

had slumbered her entire life, waiting. Wat

r shift hadn't happened-not fully. Her bo

he spat, his voice trembling, though he tried

sed hi

d h

rd. She didn't resist. Her limbs we

the blades

ugh the hollow. C

cloaked in silver and black, ri

he sky-low, po

warrio

he didn't understand. The wolf inside h

vealing sharp amber eyes and a face carved f

n of the Ri

Banished

ou dare step on

ocked on Lyra. A flicker of shock passed over h

r. The air thick

e," Kaelen said, voice li

ed through

rly. "She's a curs

nd the sound mad

you just made a d

lurred, conscio

her, she heard it-the wor

mark of the Sha

never m

sen by somet

en she

just the