The claiming ceremony had been perfect.The moon. The pack. The words. The kiss. Everything I had ever dreamed of. The silver light had bathed us both as Kael spoke his vows, his voice rough with emotion. The pack had howled their approval. Vera had cried. Elias had smiled. And I had felt, for the first time in my life, that I truly belonged somewhere. I had been claimed, accepted, and embraced by a pack that had once seen me as nothing more than an enemy's pawn. The girl who had been sold, rejected, and humiliated was now standing at the center of a pack that loved her. It was a transformation I still struggled to believe. Every time I looked in the mirror, I saw the same face, but the eyes staring back at me were different. They held power. They held hope. They held love.But something was still missing.I felt it when I woke up the next morning. The bond was there. Stronger than ever. I could feel his heartbeat as if it were my own, sense his moods before he spoke, know his thought
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