LOGINThaliaJust when I thought I was going to die, my eyes flew open.For one second, I didn't understand what I was looking at.Everything was blurred. My head felt heavy. My body felt wrong.Then my eyes found Emily.She froze and so did I.For one heartbeat, we simply stared at each other.Then my brain caught up. I can move.My gaze dropped.A silver dagger was clenched in her hand.The realization hit me all at once.I wasn't dead and if I didn't do something immediately, I was about to be.I reacted before I could think. My legs shot forward.My feet slammed into Emily's body.She flew backward, not stumbled, she flew.Her body crashed into the concrete wall with enough force to punch through it.The concrete exploded outward and Emily disappeared through the hole.Everywhere suddenly became silent.I stared, then slowly looked down at my legs. Where the hell had that come from?There was no time to wonder.I forced myself upward but my arms shook under me.The moment I tried to str
KaelumBeing kept on the moon was beginning to make my anxiety unbearable.I was barely halfway through the second day of the ritual, and already, I wanted to be back on Earth.The branding was slowly spreading across my arm, forming what would eventually become a full sleeve, and every moment I remained here felt like another moment my kingdom had been left without me.I could hear everyone. That was the worst part.I could hear prayers, arguments, cries for help and the endless noise of wolves doing what wolves had always done.I could even see parts of what was happening below but I couldn't answer properly.I was in the middle of a ritual for myself, one I hadn't expected to take this long, and interrupting it now would be pointless. I had already gambled enough simply by coming here.I wasn't going to abandon it halfway through but still I was watching, checking, waiting for something to go wrong.So far, most things were fine, not perfect.Werewolves were still doing the most we
ThaliaI felt lifeless. Not dead.That would have been easier to understand.I could still hear. I could still think.I could feel the panic clawing its way through my mind.But my body? Nothing was moving at all.Am I in a coma?The thought hit me so hard that I tried to move again.At least something, a finger, my hand, anything at all but nothing happened.My body didn't respond. Not even a twitch.I could hear Emily moving somewhere around me, I could hear her voice as she spoke about my life like I wasn't lying right there, listening to every single word.And I couldn't do a fucking thing about it.The helplessness dragged me somewhere I never wanted to go again.The feeling of being locked up in Dylan's room.I felt trapped, weak, helpless and waiting for someone else to decide what happened to me.My mind began screaming.Get up. Move.Break free, Thalia.I wasn't even that weak wolf stuck begging Dylan then but I couldn’t help myself.I had survived too much to end up trapped i
KaelumI was back on the moon for the first time in a very long time.The irony wasn't lost on me. A Moon God who hadn't paid homage to the moon in years.Most werewolves probably believed we simply controlled it, that we made the moon significant so we could use it as a means of communicating with them.But that was only the beginning.Over time, the gods had evolved to become much closer to the werewolves than they realized.We had even started to possess them for a while so they could learn their lost tradition, allowing them to continue doing what they were supposed to do.The moon had been our earliest form of communication. It was still the thing most closely associated with their culture, but ironically, it had become one of the least used parts of their connection with us.Part of that was because no one performed the deeper rituals anymore. The kind that required the gods and the moon to go beyond the surface of what we had made them represent and actually collide.There was
ThaliaWhen Carl told me the place where werewolves could recover, train, and supposedly discover themselves, I'd pictured something completely different.A small compound somewhere in a remote Indonesian town. Maybe a few modest buildings hidden behind trees, far enough from humans that no one would question why a group of werewolves needed to stay together.I should have known better.Apparently, whenever someone connected to Kaelum's estate said place, I needed to stop imagining anything remotely ordinary.The moment our car turned through the enormous gates, I leaned forward in my seat.The road stretched between perfectly maintained gardens, winding deeper into what looked less like a rehabilitation center and more like a private resort. Buildings appeared through the trees, each one more luxurious than the last, with wide glass walls, polished stone, private pools, and enough land to make me lose track of where the property ended.I slowly lowered the sunglasses I'd been wearing
Kaelum“Your attention-seeking wolf left the house a few hours ago.”Aurora's voice followed me into my study. I barely looked up from the papers on my desk as I settled into my chair.“She did.”“It looked like she was going farther away from here.”“She is.”Aurora stopped a few feet from the desk. “I should have read her thoughts. She seemed like she was being forced.”I finally looked up.“I thought it was a rule not to read the thoughts of wolves outside your territory.”“Except during emergencies.”“Yeah?”“Your wolf is an emergency.” The corner of her mouth lifted. “She is always an emergency.”I smiled.Aurora walked around the desk and leaned against its edge. “So, when are the gods coming over here?” I asked“So you can hide whatever you don't want them to see, like you did the last time?”That got my attention more than I let her see.I leaned back in my chair. “Not really. I'm just going to be away soon.”“Away?”“On a trip.”Her brows pulled together. “To where?”“Person
ThaliaI gasped awake, breathing hard.Instinctively, I tried to touch myself, but my arms wouldn’t move. Panic hit me instantly.That was when I realized I hadn’t even opened my eyes yet.The moment I did, I was met with the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen.Gold colour, not bright gold. Not wa
KaelumA woman stands in front of me. Small. Maybe five foot three. Her eyes are too wide, too bright, stretched beyond fear. Beside her sits a wilted floral arrangement.The offering. My sacrifice.I stop walking.If I’m going to kill a creature, I don’t want them frozen like this. There’s somet
Thalia“No one gives a damn about your dumb-ass excuse, Thalia. Just get it done by tomorrow.”Dylan’s voice cuts through the bar. A beta from the pack, barking orders like he owns the place, as he owns me.But fair enough, he’s about to own me, and that’s why he seems so confident. I want to tell
Kaelum“Did you take the sacrifice?” Aurora asked over the phone.I paused before answering, my eyes settling on the book barely hanging off the shelf across the room. It tilted dangerously, one more inch away from falling.I stared at it for a moment like my powers would suddenly return out of spi







