LOGINVespera Solari was the Wolf-less Luna, a shame to her bloodline and a puppet for her husband, Alpha Julian. After years of infertility and a soul-crushing betrayal by her own sister, Vespera flees into the frozen wilderness. She expects to die in the cold; instead, she runs into the arms of the Alpha King, Malachi Frost. One night of primal heat awakens her dormant wolf and marks her with a child that shouldn't exist. Now, rejected by the King and hunted by her husband, Vespera is a prisoner in a gilded cage. But the wolves are howling for a new Queen, and Vespera is no longer the weak girl they once broke. She is the mother of the true heir, and she is coming for the throne.
View MoreVESPERA'S POV I woke to the sound of screaming.I was on my feet before I was could fully be conscious, my heart hammering wildly against my chest, the shelter's canvas walls doing nothing to muffle the sounds pouring in from outside. Steel on steel. Wolves snarling. The particular crack of wood giving way under something heavy."Stay inside, Vespera. You can't cone out here," Kael's voice growled from outside the door, tight and controlled. My eyes widened as I hirriedly move towards the door. "Wh— What's happening—""Soldiers! They're Julian's men," he started to say then paused where I heard him shift position. I heard the sound of his blade clearing its sheath. "You need to stay hidden, Vespera, and that's not a suggestion."And before I could protest, he was gone, leaving me confused.I pressed my eye to the gap in the canvas, hoing to see some clue on what was going on.I saw them. They came like a flood. Dozens of soldiers pouring into the camp from three directions at once
You're going to scare them."Kael's voice came from behind me, low and dry. I was crouched behind my shelter in the gray pre-dawn, hands braced against cracked earth, vomiting for the third morning in a row."Go away," I managed between heaves."You've said that every morning. I'm still here."When there was nothing left in my stomach, I sat back on my heels and pressed the back of my hand against my mouth. The Deadlands looked exactly as terrible at dawn as they did at any other hour. No sunrise worth watching. Just gray becoming slightly lighter gray."How long have you known?" I asked."Since the second morning." He crouched beside me, holding out a piece of dried cloth to wipe my mouth. "You're very obvious.""I thought I was being quiet.""You were. Didn't help." He watched me with those careful eyes that never seemed to miss anything. "How long have you known?""Weeks." I wiped my mouth, handed the cloth back. "Since before Eternal Winter."He was quiet for a moment. Around us,
VESPERAS POV I was exhausted. Bleeding from a dozen cuts that hadn't healed right. My shoulder still burned where the arrow had grazed it. The baby inside me was growing too fast, taking energy I didn't have, making my body do impossible things just to keep us both alive.But I shifted.The transformation came easier now than it had in the wildlands. My body knew the shape of my wolf, knew how to fall into that other form without fighting every step. Bones rearranged. Fur sprouted. The world shifted into sharper focus, scents blooming around me in vivid detail.I stood there in my wolf form, smaller than most of them but glowing faintly—a golden shimmer around my edges like dawn breaking.The watching wolves murmured. Uncertain. Something in that glow making them uneasy.The scarred woman shifted too.Her wolf was massive. Battle-scarred. Missing that eye in wolf form too, the socket just as ruined. She circled me once, twice, her single eye tracking every movement.Then she attacked
VESPERAS POV Everything in my stomach came up in violent heaves that felt like my body was trying to turn itself inside out. When there was nothing left I kept retching, dry heaves that made my ribs scream and my throat burn.I killed someone.Not in defense. Not in an accident. I'd wrapped a chain around a man's neck and pulled until I felt his windpipe collapse under the pressure. Felt the exact moment life left his body and became just meat and bone and stopped resistance.*He would have killed you,* Nyx said, gentler now. *He would have killed the pup. You did what you had to do.*That was true.It was also true that some part of me—the part that had pulled that chain tight, that had held on when he was thrashing, that had felt satisfaction when his body went still—had wanted it. Had needed to prove I could do it.The ease of it terrified me more than the act itself.I was still on my knees in the weeds outside when Kael found me.He crouched down beside me without speaking. Pull












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