just for moments like this. "The Alpha has me running errands all day. I just came to see if you finally woke

My lips pulled into a smile, genuine this time. "Thank you for c

dow stretched across the pale wall of my room as he turned toward the door. "I will see you aro

," the nurse added with a bright smile. Her presence always reminded me of sunlight breaking into a

t, silence poured i

t I just stay here? I don't even like medication, but these three days of lying in this room have

rper eyes. The rot of her presence, the constant reminder t

I just d

s I looked around. No Ellias, no nurse, no warmth. Just silence. The kind tha

an down my spine and I wrapped the blanke

something inside me reaches for him, only to grab air? First the Alpha, now Ellias both ho

this f

ld see the Moon Goddess, maybe she would have the answers. Maybe she woul

whispers in the corridors, drunken boasts at the feast fires, gossip from young wolves fresh after

ther who never abandons you. They say your wolf teaches you str

Nothing.

oice in my head. Never felt that bond

at tell-tale way, I know it's their wolf. I see the tiny smiles tug at their lips, the se

was I chosen

e she hates me the way the pack does. Maybe

y chest as if to calm the storm inside. The tru

have to face Helen's cruelty again. Still have to pretend I

o empty the pain out of me. The ro

thout warnin

ght it was sleep

eiling dissolved into a night sky, painted with a thousand stars that pulsed brighter than I'd ever se

eath

n't the

ered like smoke, fading and solid all at o

en I s

nd touch it. My chest ached at the sight, my heart beating against

ut felt brushed thro

ra.

embled. My heart ski

was

in a way that tore me open. Like a whisp

adows. Nothing. Only the stretch of st

came again, cl

ra.

y chest tightened as if invisible hands

s

d it

w

b I didn't dare release. For the first time, I felt the brush of something

w cut across the moon. Darkness swallowed the s

t to speak again, the entire w

ket damp with sweat. My heart thundered i

k. White walls. Silent ai

asn't t

me in my life, I wasn't

wore I heard a faint, broken w

row,

fist to my chest. Tomorrow. So

? Or something fa