تسجيل الدخولBrenda's POV "Um, excuse me, Luna Mother." Fear finally caught up with me — really caught up, for the first time all evening. My pulse hammered so hard I was certain she could hear it, certain the sound alone might give me away before I said another word. It hadn't when she slapped me, the sting still faintly warm on my cheek. It hadn't even when she'd sent her sons chasing after me under the light of the mating ceremony moon, my heart hammering as I ran barefoot through the pack grounds, branches tearing at my dress, the moonlight throwing every shadow into something that looked like a threat. But this — the stillness in her eyes, the calm before whatever came next — this scared me in a way running never had. "Oh, trying to play dumb, are you?" She rose from her royal chair, unhurried, and crossed the room toward me with a grace that made the h
Brenda's POV "Um, excuse me, Luna Mother." Fear finally caught up with me — really caught up, for the first time all evening. My pulse hammered so hard I was certain she could hear it, certain the sound alone might give me away before I said another word. It hadn't when she slapped me, the sting still faintly warm on my cheek. It hadn't even when she'd sent her sons chasing after me under the light of the mating ceremony moon, my heart hammering as I ran barefoot through the pack grounds, branches tearing at my dress, the moonlight throwing every shadow into something that looked like a threat. But this — the stillness in her eyes, the calm before whatever came next — this scared me in a way running never had. "Oh, trying to play dumb, are you?" She rose from her royal chair, unhurried, and crossed the room toward me with a grace that made the hair on my arms stand up. Predators always moved like that. Slow, deliberate, until the moment they weren't, and by then it was alread
Brenda's POV "Um, excuse me, Luna Mother." Fear finally caught up with me — really caught up, for the first time all evening. My pulse hammered so hard I was certain she could hear it, certain the sound alone might give me away before I said another word. It hadn't when she slapped me, the sting still faintly warm on my cheek. It hadn't even when she'd sent her sons chasing after me under the light of the mating ceremony moon, my heart hammering as I ran barefoot through the pack grounds, branches tearing at my dress, the moonlight throwing every shadow into something that looked like a threat. But this — the stillness in her eyes, the calm before whatever came next — this scared me in a way running never had. "Oh, trying to play dumb, are you?" She rose from her royal chair, unhurried, and crossed the room toward me with a grace that made the hair on my arms stand up. Predators always moved like that. Slow, deliberate, until the moment they weren't, and by then it was alread
Brenda's POV "Um, excuse me, Luna Mother." Fear finally caught up with me — really caught up, for the first time all evening. My pulse hammered so hard I was certain she could hear it, certain the sound alone might give me away before I said another word. It hadn't when she slapped me, the sting still faintly warm on my cheek. It hadn't even when she'd sent her sons chasing after me under the light of the mating ceremony moon, my heart hammering as I ran barefoot through the pack grounds, branches tearing at my dress, the moonlight throwing every shadow into something that looked like a threat. But this — the stillness in her eyes, the calm before whatever came next — this scared me in a way running never had. "Oh, trying to play dumb, are you?" She rose from her royal chair, unhurried, and crossed the room toward me with a grace that made the hair on my arms stand up. Predators always moved like that. Slow, deliberate, until the moment they weren't, and by then it was alread
Brenda's POV "Um, excuse me, Luna Mother." Fear finally caught up with me — really caught up, for the first time all evening. My pulse hammered so hard I was certain she could hear it, certain the sound alone might give me away before I said another word. It hadn't when she slapped me, the sting still faintly warm on my cheek. It hadn't even when she'd sent her sons chasing after me under the light of the mating ceremony moon, my heart hammering as I ran barefoot through the pack grounds, branches tearing at my dress, the moonlight throwing every shadow into something that looked like a threat. But this — the stillness in her eyes, the calm before whatever came next — this scared me in a way running never had. "Oh, trying to play dumb, are you?" She rose from her royal chair, unhurried, and crossed the room toward me with a grace that made the hair on my arms stand up. Predators always moved like that. Slow, deliberate, until the moment they weren't, and by then it was already to
Brenda's POV"Um, excuse me, Luna Mother." Fear finally caught up with me — really caught up, for the first time all evening. My pulse hammered so hard I was certain she could hear it, certain the sound alone might give me away before I said another word.It hadn't when she slapped me, the sting still faintly warm on my cheek. It hadn't even when she'd sent her sons chasing after me under the light of the mating ceremony moon, my heart hammering as I ran barefoot through the pack grounds, branches tearing at my dress, the moonlight throwing every shadow into something that looked like a threat. But this — the stillness in her eyes, the calm before whatever came next — this scared me in a way running never had."Oh, trying to play dumb, are you?" She rose from her royal chair, unhurried, and crossed the room toward me with a grace that made the hair on my arms stand up. Predators always moved like that. Slow, deliberate, until the moment they weren't, and by then it was already too la







