로그인KILLIAN.“Candice, stop!”She ran before I could catch her. One moment she was standing in front of me, fighting Lucian's call with everything she had, and the next she disappeared into the smoke filling the underground corridor.I went after her immediately. “Candice, listen to me! You have to fight it!”She did not slow down. Her movements looked wrong, too fast and stiff, as though her wolf had taken control of her body while Candice's human mind fought from somewhere underneath.“Alpha!” Jonah shouted behind me.I looked back briefly. Jonah was leading the other Crescent Moon wolves toward the western tunnel, supporting one of the weaker prisoners with his arm around the man's waist.“Keep moving,” I ordered. “Get them out.”“What about the others?” Jonah asked.“Take anyone willing to follow you. I'll get Candice.”Jonah's expression tightened. “Don't die down here, Alpha.”“I wasn't planning to.”I turned and continued after Candice. The farther she ran, the stronger Lucian's Al
CANDICE."Don't shift. It's wolfsbane strong enough to kill us in wolf form."I tore the edge of my shirt and pressed the fabric over my mouth, even though I knew it would do almost nothing against concentrated wolfsbane. The pale gas continued pouring from the vents, slowly swallowing the corridor as Killian threw himself against the steel door separating us from the prisoners. He gripped the edge and pulled, but the silver built into the frame burned his palms. The smell of scorched skin mixed with the wolfsbane before he finally stepped back."Stop doing that," I told him, searching the walls for another exit. "You can't open it with your hands.""And standing here waiting to die is better?""I never said that."My wolf was already retreating deeper inside my mind. She had barely recovered from the binding, and the wolfsbane was weakening her faster than I expected. My legs became heavy as I moved along the corridor, running my hands over the walls."Candice, stay awake," Killian w
KILLIAN."Get away from Sara! The binding is trying to transfer to the nearest Alpha."Aldric's warning tore through the restored pack bond, but I did not release Candice. I felt her fingers tighten around my arm at the same moment the black lines above her heart began spreading beneath her skin. They moved toward her shoulder, down her arm, and reached the exact place where her hand gripped me. The instant they touched my skin, my wolf reacted with such violence that I nearly lost control of the shift. He recognized the foreign Alpha power trying to force its way into our connection and threw himself against it, snarling inside my mind."Let me go, Killian," Candice ordered, trying to pull her hand away from me. When I tightened my grip instead, her eyes flashed with anger. "This is not the moment for your usual controlling nonsense. If you don't release me right now, I swear I will personally—"Pain cut off the rest of her threat. Candice cried out and folded against me, one hand pr
CANDICE."Come back to me."My knees hit the concrete before I understood what was happening. Lucian was nowhere in the corridor, yet his command wrapped around my wolf with enough force to make my bones ache. I pressed my palms against the cold floor and tried to push myself back up, but my body refused to listen. My human mind screamed at me to stand while my wolf lowered her head inside me, accepting an authority neither of us had chosen.Killian moved toward me immediately. "Candice, I'm here. Let me help you."A violent snarl tore from my throat before his hand reached me, and Killian stopped. The reaction had come from my wolf, not me. She recoiled from his Alpha scent as though he were another threat, and the black lines above my heart burned harder the closer he stood."Don't touch me," I warned, struggling to catch my breath. "Lucian's binding reacts whenever your Alpha scent gets close. I can feel it tightening around my wolf."Killian slowly lowered his hand, although every
CANDICE."Come back to me."My knees hit the concrete before I understood what was happening. Lucian was nowhere in the corridor, yet his command wrapped around my wolf with enough force to make my bones ache. I pressed my palms against the cold floor and tried to push myself back up, but my body refused to listen. My human mind screamed at me to stand while my wolf lowered her head inside me, accepting an authority neither of us had chosen.Killian moved toward me immediately. "Candice, I'm here. Let me help you."A violent snarl tore from my throat before his hand reached me, and Killian stopped. The reaction had come from my wolf, not me. She recoiled from his Alpha scent as though he were another threat, and the black lines above my heart burned harder the closer he stood."Don't touch me," I warned, struggling to catch my breath. "Lucian's binding reacts whenever your Alpha scent gets close. I can feel it tightening around my wolf."Killian slowly lowered his hand, although every
KILLIAN.I stopped moving the moment Candice told me her wolf did not know me. Every instinct inside my own wolf demanded that I close the distance between us, pull her against my body, and cover her in my scent until whatever the Circle had done finally broke. He wanted to remind her wolf of the bond the Moon Goddess had created between us, but Aldric's warning returned before I could take another step. If I pushed my Alpha aura against the artificial binding, I could force Candice's wolf deeper beneath Lucian's command instead of bringing her back to me.So I did the one thing that felt completely unnatural for an Alpha standing inside enemy territory. I lowered my eyes first and forced my wolf to settle, even when he fought me hard from within. Candice went still, clearly surprised by the action, and the grip she had on the stolen weapon loosened slightly."I won't use my Alpha command on you," I told her quietly, keeping my hands where she could see them. "I won't force your wolf
Sara. “Shit!” The curse flew out of my mouth the second I saw the cracked clock. I was already late for chores, but all I could focus on was the deep, throbbing ache between my legs — raw and sore from how hard Killian had fucked me last night. He had slammed into me, made me moan and beg, then le
Sara. I was done with everything. I stood at the edge of that stupid cliff, heart hammering so hard it felt like it was going to crack my ribs. Only one thing in my head: jump. Just jump and make all the bullying stop. Make the pain stop. Make me stop existing. “Goddess, forgive me,” I whispered,
Candace Miller’s POV (Sara) Six years had gone by since everyone thought I died at that clinic. I stood in my bathroom, staring at the woman in the mirror. She was not the weak Omega who used to clean floors until her fingers bled. She was not the desperate girl who did stupid things just to feel
Sara. “You don’t mean that…” The words barely made it out of my mouth as I stumbled backwards, legs weak, the rejection hitting me like a physical blow straight to my chest. I could hear the laughter erupting all around the hall — sharp, mocking, delighted at my pain — but I couldn’t look at them.







