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The Hunt

Lyra's POV The moon is too bright tonight.Its pale light spills across the forest, washing over the pines and trails until nowhere is dark. Every branch casts long shadows on the ground. The night is beautiful, but only wolves know the danger it holds.I feel it in my teeth.A dull ache has settled into my jaw. It creeps behind my eyes until I can't ignore it. My pulse won't steady. Every instinct tells me I should have turned back hours ago. The full moon always stirs something wild in wolves. Tonight, it feels like the whole forest is holding its breath.On a night like this, every wolf within fifty miles will be restless. Hungry. Alert.And I'm stupid enough to walk straight into their territory.North Ridge land.Kael Varga's land.For a second, I let myself think of the man I'm really running from. The one who smiled at me like I was already his, the one my father shook hands with over a map of pack borders. If he finds me before I find somewhere to disappear, none of this will

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

Teeth In The Dark

LYRA'S POVI don't look back.Looking back means slowing down. Slowing down means his hands on me. I won't give him that chance.The woods blur into black and silver. My legs grow heavier by the second, but fear is stronger than exhaustion. It drowns out the pain in my chest and the ache spreading through my muscles.Behind me, there's nothing. No branches snapping under a predator's weight. That's worse.A man like Kael Varga doesn't lose his prey. He's letting me run. Giving me hope before he takes it away.I hate how sure I am of that.He could have caught me at the cliff if he'd wanted to. Instead, he watched me go.A twig snaps to my left.My head whips toward the sound, but I don't stop. I veer right, weaving between two thick pines.Another snap. Behind me this time. Too close."You're fast."His voice drifts through the dark, calm, like we're on an evening walk."Faster than the last stray I caught."A chill races down my spine. I keep my mouth shut. Words aren't going to save

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

Cold and Close

Lyra's POVThe cave smells like wet stone and old smoke.The air inside is cold enough to bite. It carries the scent of damp earth and ashes left behind by travelers long gone. Water drips somewhere deep in the dark, each drop drumming softly against the stone walls.Kael shoves me inside first.I stumble a step before catching myself against the rough wall, wincing as pain shoots through my ankle.A moment later, Kael ducks in after me. Without wasting time, he grabs a fallen branch from outside and drags it across the entrance, covering it with loose leaves and vines.It won't fool anyone for long. But it might buy us a few minutes. Right now, minutes are all we have.Outside, distant howls roll through the forest. Closer than before. His pack, searching in pairs.The sound sends another chill down my spine.I slide down the cave wall until I'm sitting on the cold ground and draw in a shaky breath. The adrenaline that kept me moving is wearing off, leaving nothing but exhaustion and

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

The Alpha's Lie

KAEL'S POVThe voice outside is familiar."Darin," I mutter.My beta. My right hand. The one man in the pack who notices everything and never asks the same question twice.Behind me, Lyra presses herself farther into the dark at the back of the cave. I don't spare her another glance. I step toward the entrance and kick the fallen branch aside.Cold air rushes in, carrying the scent of pine, damp earth, and wolves.Darin stands outside with two others. All three are armed. All three watch me with the alert posture of wolves expecting trouble."You've been gone an hour," Darin says. His eyes drift past me and into the dark beyond. "Found anything?""Stray," I reply, keeping my voice flat. "Female. Sprained ankle. Tried to run."Darin's nose twitches as he draws a careful breath. "She's in there?""She's hurt." I shift slightly, blocking the entrance without making it obvious. "I'm bringing her in. For questioning."One of the wolves beside Darin steps forward. Mara.Her eyes narrow towa

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

Four Hours

Lyra's POVKael sits down across from me.Only the wind outside and my own steady breathing fill the space between us. Water drips somewhere deeper in the cave, each drop making the stillness feel heavier."Four hours," Kael says, his voice calm as usual. "Then I have to take you in."I give a small nod. I don't trust myself to speak. If I open my mouth now, I'm not sure what will come out.He rests his elbows on his knees, his gaze never leaving me. "So we're going to talk.""I don't have anything to say."A faint smile tugs at one corner of his mouth. "You have everything to say." His eyes lift to meet mine. They're gold again. Sharp. Alpha eyes. "Start with your name. Your real one.""Lyra.""Last name."I hesitate, just for a second. "Cole."He tilts his head. "Lie."My jaw tightens. "What?""You smelled like a lie when you said it." His voice never rises. He simply leans forward, forearms on his knees. "Try again."I look away. The cave wall suddenly becomes much more interesting

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

Mine

The first light of dawn strikes.Soft golden light filters through the trees. The air is cool, scented with damp earth and pine. But the quiet doesn't last.They come in silence. Eight wolves. Darin leads the group, Mara at his right. The others spread out behind them with practiced precision, each one armed, each pair of eyes fixed on the cave like they already know what's waiting inside.I step out first, shoulders squared, keeping my face unreadable. Lyra follows a step behind me."Alpha." Darin's voice breaks the silence. His eyes flick briefly to Lyra before returning to me. "We're here for the stray."I don't move. "She's not a stray."Mara folds her arms. "Then what is she?" She says it flat, like it doesn't matter to her either way. I've known her long enough to hear when it does.The question hangs in the cold morning air. The ravine falls unnaturally still. Even the birds have gone quiet. I turn my head, just enough to look at Lyra.She stands with her eyes lowered, waiting

Last Updated : 2026-07-26

Not this close

Kael’s POVNorth Ridge has never felt this small.We walk through the gates in the thick heat of mid-afternoon and the pack goes quiet. Not fear. Not anger. Waiting. Every wolf has agreed not to decide about her until the rite forces them to. A few nod at me out of habit. None of them look at Lyra long enough to mean it.I don’t look away from her. I can’t.I take her straight to my house. The pack hall can wait. She needs rest, and some part of me is not ready to hand her back to the world yet.She sits on the edge of my bed, hands folded, ankle propped on the cushion I shoved under it without asking. I set water in front of her. She stares at it like it's a problem she has to solve before she can touch it.“Why do you keep doing that?” I ask.“What?”“Holding back. One hand ready to run.”She doesn’t answer. Just lets out a long, quiet breath and looks past me.I kneel in front of her before I decide to. Take her ankle in my hands, gentler than I need to be. The bruising is almost g

Last Updated : 2026-09-13

Borrowed time

LYRA'S POVHe looks at me like he’s trying to see all the way through to whatever’s underneath.I don’t know if I can let him.This isn’t what I planned. I wanted distance, enough that Roman Ashford couldn’t find my scent on the wind if he tried. Instead I’m standing between the man who wants to sell me and the man who caught me running from him, and I no longer know which direction is safe.When we walk through the gates of North Ridge, every stare finds me and then slides away. I don’t belong here. That isn’t what keeps me awake.It’s Kael.The way he stood in front of his own pack for me. Lied for me. Put his name on the line for a woman he met a day ago. Why? What does he actually want?I know how wolves like him can be. I watched one my whole life.My father loved my mother, or said he did, right up until the day it cost him nothing to prove otherwise. Years before I was born, his pack owed Thornfield a debt—a marriage that never happened. Ashford’s family never forgot. They just

Last Updated : 2026-09-13

Go or Stay

KAEL’S POVWhen Mara says it, I start to refuse.She cuts me off before the words fully leave my mouth.“Or is there something you’re hiding? If there isn’t, you’ll let her stay with me until the Moon Rite begins.”Lorenzo, the councilor standing at her shoulder, speaks before I can answer. His voice is calm, measured, the kind that expects obedience. “Obey the rules, Alpha. We shouldn’t have to remind you of the law. You’re supposed to know it better than any of us.”The room feels smaller. I look at Lyra. She looks back. For a second I try to read her—whether she wants me to fight this or whether she’s already bracing to be moved again. Her face gives me almost nothing. Then she looks away first.The silence stretches. I can feel Lorenzo watching every shift in my expression, waiting for the Alpha to remember his place.“She stays with Mara,” I say.Lyra is on her feet before I finish the sentence. Unsteady for half a breath, then she locks it down. Her hands are clenched at her sid

Last Updated : 2026-09-13

The price of a lie

LYRA'S POV"What are you and Kael really up to?" Mara asks, quiet and even. "I know when someone's lying to me." I could deflect. I've had a lifetime of practice turning questions like this into nothing. But something about the way she asks it, steady, not cruel, like she actually wants the truth instead of a reason to hate me, makes me want to give her one honest thing. "I don't know if it's real," I say. "The bond. I don't know if any of this is real, and I'm too scared to ask him again in case the answer changes."That's not the truth. I already believe the bond is a lie Kael made up to protect me. I only said "I don't know" because Mara can sense an outright lie, and something built on uncertainty was the only version she might actually believe. I don't want Kael to sound like a liar to a woman who's already looking for a reason to think so of him. Better she doubts me than doubts him.Mara doesn't move for a second. Whatever she expected me to say, it wasn't that. She steps ba

Last Updated : 2026-09-13

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