Draven’s POVFor thirty years, my chest had been an iron tomb.Within this cage, there had been only silence, rotten shadows, and the ghostly screams of five centuries of crimes committed by the ancestors. I had ruled the Northern pack as a man-king with a fractured soul, leading troops and quashing rebellions while waiting for the dark poison within my bones to eventually drive me mad and make me kill my people.Now, my ribcage was vibrating with every breath I took like a plucked war bow.The wolf was awake.He was not some sort of parasitic creature trying to kill me. He was an apex sovereign, pacing in the depths of my ribs with lethal, devastating power. With every breath I took, the taste of pine needles, cedar smoke, and melting snow from two leagues south of the mountain pass flooded my senses. The whole world opened before me, dividing into a multitude of sharp, bright currents, each and every one of them directed straight to the woman standing before me in the solar.Mate.M
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