جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 85

Minutes turned into hours, hours turned into days, and before I knew it, more than a week had passed since I became the Luna of Blackwood.Life here wasn’t entirely boring, which was something I had not expected to admit so soon. I was adjusting because I had no choice but to adjust, although becoming Luna of this pack was proving to be far more difficult than anything I had experienced in Alec’s pack. There were responsibilities I had never imagined, expectations I was still trying to understand, and a council that seemed determined to remind me every chance they got that I was not the Luna they had wanted.The elders continued to challenge Xavier over his decision, and sometimes I found myself reasoning with them silently whenever we sat in the council chambers. Some of their concerns were reasonable enough for me to understand where they were coming from, but most of the time, I could feel the hostility rolling off them whenever I walked into the room.I had refused to give them th

I pulled my hand away from the pillar so quickly that I nearly stumbled backward, my heart pounding as I stared at the place where the strange black mark had been only seconds ago. I blinked several times, convinced that perhaps my eyes were playing some ridiculous trick on me, but the pillar remained exactly as it had always been, old and weathered with faint cracks running through the stone. There was no trace of the beautiful, mysterious symbol I had just touched, yet I could still feel the strange heat it had left behind in my palm.“What the hell was that?” I whispered, staring at my fingers.Vin did not answer. That alone made me uneasy.“Vin?” I called inside my head, waiting for the sarcastic comment she usually had ready whenever I did something questionable. She was never this quiet, especially when I was standing in front of something that had just made my entire body react as though I had touched a live wire. Instead, I felt her shift