Se connecterPanic shot through me. I lunged forward and caught her before she could hit the ground, pulling her unconscious form against my chest. Her skin was still warm from whatever power had been flowing through her, but she had stopped glowing.“Aria?” I shook her gently. “Aria, wake up.”She didn’t respon
Aria’s POV“Can’t you just tell them not to?” I asked.Ethan rubbed the back of his neck. “I’m only an Acting Alpha, Aria. I don’t have the same authority as a true Alpha would. If I push the Elders too hard, it could provoke a war between this pack and my actual home pack.”Great. So I was stuck be
“Close your eyes,” Ethan continued. “And breathe. In through your nose, out through your mouth. Let yourself sink into the feeling of the moonlight on your skin.”I did as he said, focusing on the rhythm of my breathing. Strangely, I felt a presence begin to wash over me—somehow, deep in my bones, i
Aria’s POV“Get away from her,” Ethan said curtly. The words were quiet, but they carried that same crackling resonance from last night, when he had commanded everyone in the meeting house to go silent.Lucas straightened up slowly and leveled Ethan with a defiant stare. “We were just talking, Ethan
I rolled my eyes and picked up my pace.“Don’t hold your breath,” I muttered.…Lucas’s POV“She’s going to be more difficult than we thought,” my wolf observed as we continued walking toward the Alpha House.“Good,” I replied, watching Aria walk up ahead hand-in-hand with her sister—hips swaying, l
Aria’s POVThe three of us walked away from the restaurant after that, leaving Rowan seething on the sidewalk. I could feel his angry eyes burning holes into the back of my head until we rounded the corner, and only then did I let out the breath I’d been holding.Beside me, Ava was unusually quiet.







