LOGINThe streets of the Nightmoor pack were completely empty and silent, which was normal at four in the morning. I thought that would guarantee a peaceful walk to the temple, but apparently not. The she-wolf spent the entire way jumping from one side to the other, forcing me to sneak through the shadows, as if we were fleeing from something invisible.
Well, not entirely invisible. Twice, I had to hide in one of the alle
“Oh, Goddess…” Elowyn whimpered, breathless, when they finally parted “I prayed so much to be able to feel your kiss again… I love you so much…”“Elowyn…!” Garrett pressed their foreheads together, staring at her as if she were about to disappear. “How… How is this possible? I searched for you everywhere… And those bodies… The woman smelled of you… Even the smell of your blood…” he lamented “Please, tell me this isn’t just an illusion. I can’t bear to lose you again…”“They cornered me.” she cried “I don’t think they ever meant to attack the pack. They wanted to take you away from us. They knew I wouldn’t use a dangerous spell while Estelle was with me.” Elowyn’s voice broke &ldqu
“Mom?” Wayne murmured, the question sounding not only strangled, but also hesitant, vulnerable. Adjectives I never expected I would one day be able to use for someone like Garrett Nightmoor’s son.“Wayne.” she replied, her voice choked with emotion, one of her hands reaching for my shoulder as if she feared falling.“How…?” He took a step back, making me think the woman next to me wasn’t the only one feeling her body weaken from the shock “How is this possible…?”He was right. How was that even possible? Without understanding how it was possible, I stared at that woman's face, the same one I had known for months in her wild wolf form."Is what he's saying true?" I asked, incredulous "You... You rea
“You don’t know how much I’ve wished I could really talk to you all these months… And now, finally… Oh, Holly.” This time, she really started to cry, her arms wrapping around my chest and pulling me into a tight hug “Oh, my baby. I’m so, so sorry. You had to endure so much alone… I should have been able to protect you better…”“I… I don’t understand,” I murmured, for a second beginning to wonder if I was trapped in a dream, the longest one yet “You… I mean, that little one… I mean, she was clearly in service to the Goddess and was very intelligent, but... She was just a wolf. How could she…? I mean, how could you be one of us?” I asked, but the way her cry and the she-wolf’s wail sounded alike was unsettling me “Why didn't you try to explain this to me? Not with words,
I didn't know what to say because of the shock. And the woman seemed content to just stand there smiling and staring at me. So we stayed there for what seemed like a long time, without anyone breaking the silence.Thanks to the shimmering veins reflected on the walls of that chamber, I could see that my dream hadn't done justice to her true beauty. In fact, the more I looked at her and the more her perfectly white hair seemed to shine like moonlight, almost like an aura around her, I realized that it wasn't even the first dream I'd had about her. A long time ago, a few months after my wedding to Noah, I had another vision of her. The one where the wolf guided me to a woman crying over a broken cradle in the middle of the clearing.It was strange, because I only saw her for a few seconds in that first dream and she
Only one candle remained unlit after Wayne had violently closed the trapdoor, leaving only a faint light in that place, especially since I was still lying on the floor of what they called the chamber.Sniffling, I squirmed until I finally managed to sit up, my back hitting the side wall of the chamber a few times. My arms and wrists ached almost unbearably where Wayne had held me, and having my hands pinned behind my back like that was only making things worse. Tears began to well up, and, able to hear only my own heavy breathing within those walls, I stared at the small candle near the ceiling, since it was the only thing I could really see in there.I jumped when what seemed to be a tongue slid across the part of my ankles that wasn't fastened. It was only then that I realized that, amidst all the confusion, the she-wolf had managed to remain hidden behind th
Wayne's words increased my panic, and not only because there was enough hatred in his eyes to make me believe he already knew which grave he would dispose of my body in.Precious? For his mother? That place?Oh, Goddess… The situation was even worse than I imagined.“Please! I didn’t mean to, I swear!” I whimpered, my eyes searching for Flora, silently begging her to get me out of yet another mess I’d gotten myself into “I had a dream that brought me here, but I never imagined that…”“A dream?” Kent repeated, his eyes narrowing as he watched his nephew shake me like I was a puppet “I don’t remember you mentioning anything about premonitory dreams when we were talking about your magic. It seems Wayn
My hopes had been a bit up and down lately. Well, mostly down, if I were honest. I had so much hope in the potion ingredients I read about in that book. And finding out that Prince… I mean, that Noah had already undergone several treatments with experienced
Despite spending all my free time in the library lately, I haven't run into Prince Noah again. And I didn't even know if I could call that good or bad luck.Memories of what had happened the night before flooded my mind
I was still lost in those strange sensations when Noah's kiss, as suddenly as it had begun, ended.My breathing was uneven, and my whole face was hot. And when I looked at Noah, I noticed he wasn't much different from m
The cabin was quieter than usual when I finally managed to reach it. For a wolf with a normal sense of smell, finding the place would have been a task of only a few moments, but now I was kind of lost in my new "home" and had no idea where Prince Noah could be.







