CHAPTER 5Keira:The silence after my awakening felt like everyone held their breath. And in that moment, for the first time in my life, the wolves of Silver Moon Pack did not look through me as if I was dirt beneath their shoes. They looked at me like something that they could not name, something that I knew they feared.Alpha Harlan descended from the platform with the slow, deliberate steps of a man used to being obeyed. His eyes were fixed on me and I could tell that he was angry for he was not used to someone stealing the lights and authority from him, especially not me.“Keira Brown,” he said, the alpha command wrapping around my name like a leash. “You are going to come with me and we are going to the elders. Now.”For a moment the old reflex rose in. The small, obedient girl who had survived lowering her head by scrubbing the floors and swallowing insults, seemed to want me to shy back. But tonight, something else sat behind my ribs. And I knew that that I was not going to sta
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