All Chapters of Moonbound Hearts: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

The path back to the Shadowfang Pack’s central clearing felt different under the full moon tonight. The forest, usually my companion in solitude, now seemed to anticipate my arrival, leaves whispering secrets and shadows stretching longer than they should. My wrist burned faintly with the glow of the mark, pulsing gently as if urging me onward. I tried to will it to calm, to become normal again, but it refused. Tonight, it would not be ignored.I tightened my cloak against the chill of the evening air, each step careful on the uneven forest floor. Even with years of training as a scout, the anticipation in my chest made my movements less steady and more deliberate. I wasn’t just returning for a routine full moon ceremony. Something had shifted in me, in my wolf, in the way the air seemed to hum with unseen energy. And I knew the pack would feel it too.The clearing came into view, bathed in silver light. Hundreds of shadows moved silently, their forms coalescing into the familiar shap

Sleep abandoned me long before dawn.I lay awake on my narrow bed, staring at the wooden ceiling beams of my quarters as if they might offer answers. The pack compound was quiet now, the restless energy of the full moon ceremony finally settling into the forest beyond our borders. But inside me, nothing had settled.My wrist burned.Not sharply. Not painfully.Just enough to remind me it was there.I turned my arm slowly, watching the mark glow faintly in the half-light spilling through the small window. The symbol looked sharper than it had the night before, the lines more defined, as though it were still forming, still deciding what it wanted to become.Or who it wanted me to become.I exhaled shakily and covered my wrist with my palm, as if that could stop the thoughts spiraling through my mind.Ronan Ashford.The way he had looked at me.The way he had stepped back.The restraint in his voice, the tension in his posture, and the unmistakable pull that had surged between us only to