ログインHe spoke first, his tone low but firm enough to carry. “We can wait,” he said. “Children will come when they’re meant to. The Pack already has its heart.” The room stilled for a breath. Mara looked over her shoulder, her hands still sunk in flour, her eyes soft and startled. “You mean me?” she asked
LILAThe house woke before dawn. Old wood shifted, the hearth whispered, and the air felt different—alive again. I stood at the foot of the stairs when I heard them coming. Two sets of steps, uneven from the road, but in rhythm all the same. When the door opened, cold air rushed through the hall. Ga
“I thought I had to be perfect,” she said. “Every step, every word. Like one mistake would make them lose faith in me.”“Then let them,” I said. “Let them see we bleed too. Let them see what real looks like.”Her eyes lifted toward the sky, catching the first streaks of gold between the branches. “T
GAVINHer breath came out in bursts, sharp enough to cut. She pressed her palm to her mouth, like the words might spill if she didn’t hold them in. I moved before I thought, closing the space, catching her hands in mine. Her fingers were cold and damp, her pulse racing under my thumb.“I can’t be wh
GAVINThe scent hit me before I saw the gate—hers, faint and fading, scattered by wind. I caught it the second I stepped into the hall, and everything in me snapped to attention. The council chamber still echoed in my head, the droning voices, the talk of territory lines and alliance disputes. I had
MARAI knelt beside a pool fed by a narrow stream. Moonlight rippled across its surface, silver on black. My reflection flickered there, the same face that wore the Luna’s mask every day, only softer now—bare, unsure, alive. I cupped my hands in the water and let it run down my wrists. The cold snap
But I knew it was real.The collection Lyric and I shared still sat in a little cedar box beneath a folded scarf in my personal chest. It had been untouched for years.That night, after Gavin was asleep and Tyler was in the war room with the elders, I lit a candle, closed the bedroom door, and opene
LILAThe map of the surrounding territories lay spread across the long table, corners pinned with stones, ink still fresh on the updated border routes. Tyler stood at the head of the table, sleeves rolled, brows drawn together in deep focus.Dominic and George flanked him, murmuring quietly. I barel
LILAI sat up slowly in bed, the sheets still warm from Gavin’s small body. He’d slept beside me the night before, curled against my side like he never wanted to be apart again. We’d stayed up whispering until he drifted off.I reached for him now.Empty.Just the faint imprint of his body in the bl
LILAI laid out the cowries on the table like puzzle pieces. One from the clearing, one from the owl and the rest from the old cedar box buried beneath scarves.The cowries in my old box… I began lining them up in the patterns we used to practice under candlelight.Lyric’s favourite layout was three







