SELENETHE SINGLE FLAME on my cake flickered, dancing in the dim light of our small home.I just turned twenty-one today.I should be happy. I should be celebrating.I blew the candle and the flame died, taking my last wish with it.I looked at my family. There was my grandmother, my uncles, my cousins.They were all smiling.Or trying to.Their eyes gave them away, full of a worry so deep it felt like a heavy blanket in the room.Our house sat on the edge of the pack’s land, closer to the next territory than our own Alpha’s mansion.We were outsiders, even at home.“Selene,” my grandmother began, her voice thin, like old paper.“Yes, Grandma?” I asked, my own voice gave away my shivering hands.Here it comes. The bad news.“The council… our dues…” she spoke, unable to look me in the eye.“We couldn’t pay,” my Uncle Luis finished for her, his jaw tight.“For years, child,” she added.“I don’t understand please,” I pleaded. “What does that mean?”My grandma inhaled deeply, and in a des
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