The moon hung heavy above the forest,silver light spilling across the Blackthorn Pack’s training grounds. The airsmelled of frost and pine, and Selene’s breath curled into little clouds as sheexhaled. The night was quiet, deceptively so, but inside her chest, her heart wouldn’tstop racing.She wasn’t the girl she had been two yearsago.At eighteen, she had been scarred, broken,stumbling her way through endless drills under Damien’s harsh gaze. Now, nearlytwenty, she stood taller, stronger, her body honed by countless beatings, herinstincts sharper than she ever thought possible. She’d grown into her wolf,though she still hadn’t shifted fully. That would come the night she turnedtwenty, when the moon’s call bound her forever to her wolf spirit, when shefinally gets to meet her mate.And with that day looming so close,everything inside her buzzed with restless energy.Her wolf whispered constantly in the backof her mind now. A low growl, sometimes a laugh, sometimes a command. Soon.Soon,
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