The pain wasn’t just in my body.It came from somewhere deeper—from bone, from blood, from memory.I stood in a dream made of moonlight and ash. All around me, silver wolf bones jutted from the earth, buried in fields of broken collars and rusted wedding rings. In the wind, I heard voices—echoing, whispering, overlapping.“Emily.” “Alpha Stephen.” “Mine.” “Mistake.” “Weapon.” “Wife.”I looked down at my hands. In one, a red thread. In the other, a silver flame.Then the memories came.The orphanage. I was ten, peeking through the bushes as a boy with dirt on his face crouched beside a tree. He folded a note and slipped it into a hollow, whispering, “Emily, when I become an Alpha… I’ll come back and marry you.”And another memory—darker.Lucien, strapped inside a cryogenic pod, screaming silently through frosted glass. Jason Harrison stood outside, clipboard in hand, unmoved. Beside him, Luna Linda, smiling.“She’ll say yes,” Luna Linda said. “She’s always been stupid like th
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