POV: Amara Cross at 19.“No matter how sharp your blade, the title ‘Beta by mercy’ cuts deeper.”The cold air crept in before the dawn did—thin, biting, and cruel, just like the stares that followed me everywhere in this pack.I sat up in bed, breath caught in my throat. It had always been a major challenge. The dreams, the fire. Another face I didn’t recognize. A woman screaming my name, not Amara—but something softer and stranger. I clutched the pendant around my neck, the only thing I’d had since the day I was found on the border of Dawnshade Pack fourteen years ago, half-dead and memoryless.The dreams never stopped.Neither did the cold.And today of all days, the chill felt different.Today was the Blood Moon Ceremony.Today everything could change… or shatter.I pulled the covers off and stood, feeling the tension coil in my muscles. Nineteen years old, a trained warrior, and still I was seen as nothing more than a Beta by pity—a role I earned through broken bones and blood, no
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