Aurora Novels Novels & Stories

Her cheek presses into my chest as if she wants to anchor herself. “It is not just you,” I whisper into her hair,“Something inside you is waking up.” I am trying to let her know what I am sensing because I don't want her to feel that I am manipulating her feelings. I want to be very transparent and open with her... She lifts her head an inch, her lashes brushing my collarbone. “What do you mean?” Aurora is a hybrid. It explains her healing and even her hyperobservation. “A part of you is wolf. That is why you have strong healing. Why your instincts are sharper than you realize.” I slide my hand up her back and let it settle between her shoulder blades. Her skin is warm beneath my palm. “But

I stated, my voice laced with emotions. Aurora took her eyes away from Maya and gazed at me. "And we are both lucky to have you in our lives. When I came here at first, I didn't know how things would turn out for me. I might have been dead but I guess fate had better things in store for me." She glanced at Maya who had already fallen asleep, her chest rising and falling in a slow rhythm. She dropped her in the cot and straightened her legs then turned around to face me.

The runes pulsed brighter, casting ethereal light across the ceremonial ground. “Do not cry for him. He was never worthy.” I clutched my head, rocking slightly. “Who… who are you?” I whispered inside my mind. “Your other half. Feel me, Aurora. Feel our strength rising.” The voice wrapped around my shattered heart like a warm embrace, easing the worst of the tearing sensation just enough for me to lift my head. Xavier was still standing there, but his expression had shifted from disgust to confusion as he stared at the glowing marks on my skin. Lila clung tighter to him, her smile faltering.

From the sea of monsters, a single figure steps forward. A girl with silver fire crackling in her hands. A girl with eyes like storm clouds and a mouth set in a grim line. Aurora. Except this Aurora is larger than life. Her hair floats around her like a halo. Her gaze pins Cali in place, heavier than chains. "You hurt me," the spectral Aurora says, her voice echoing through the dead world. "You laughed while I bled." "No!" Cali wails, backing away. "It was just jokes, I didn't mean-!"

They appeared in their wolf’s form. Aurora shook her white fur so harshly after taking over from Angel and grabbed two vampires by their necks before landing on the ground, crushing their necks under her paws. She howled aloud, raising her snouts high in the air, summoning all the wolves around her, including rogues. All the wolves in all the packs around her felt a force on them, making all of them howl aloud behind her. Even rogues howled aloud, mirroring Aurora’s pain. It was the time when a white urn appeared in Rita’s hands.

However, before either could act, the night erupted. A colossal wolf sprang from the darkness, crashing into Draven with bone-crushing force. Aurora screamed his name as the two tumbled across the rocks, snarling and clawing at each other. More wolves surged up the ridge. Aurora's instincts ignited. Her palms ignited with heat. Moonlight slithered across her skin like silver flames. A warrior wolf charged at her. Aurora raised her arm—energy erupted outward in a wave, sending the wolf hurtling backward into a boulder.

“Aurora! Goddess, you’re lovely. Spare a dance for your Alpha?” “Of course, Alpha Arnold.” We dance and make conversation about the effort to track down the rogues. I watch Wiley waltzing with Brynna and Kent with Natasha while Jordan and his mother move with refined grace. It’s all I can do not to break down and tell Alpha Arnold about my father and what’s going to take place tonight. Especially when he says, “You’ve always been an outstanding member of our pack, Aurora.” His eyes peer kindly at my face. “I would hate to lose you, but I think the Alphas would be gaining an incredible Luna.”

Always. Aurora let herself sink into that silence. She smelled his skin, felt the heat of his body, heard the steady sound of his breathing. Her eyes closed for a moment, and images came: not the shadows of the past, but glimpses of a future. A field of flowers. A white wolf running beside a black wolf. Children laughing by a river. She didn't know where these visions came from, whether they were hers or reflections of her bond with Cael, but a deep peace enveloped her. The pain still resided within her. The fear hadn't disappeared. But something stronger was beginning to rise.

Toasts were made, to absent mates whose names still lived in hearts, to pups who had shifted for the first time, to the strength that had carried the pack through another brutal year. Aurora sat at the high table between Ethan and Jason. She wore a simple aqua dress that matched her father’s eyes when they glowed; her hair was braided with silver threads the elders had woven in for protection. She smiled at the little ones who came to show her their drawings, but her gaze kept drifting to the high arched windows where rain streaked the glass in silver ribbons. The storm had been building all day, low clouds, electric air. She felt it in her bones: something heavier than weather.

KAI’S POINT OF VIEW. I felt the tremor in Aurora’s body under the pads of my fingers; it was a fine, violent shivering that traveled from her ribs into the palm of my hand. She was hollowed out, her spirit buckling under the weight of Denise’s lies and the judgmental, narrow-eyed glares of the Orsini vipers. She kept herself pressed to my back, her body trembling like she’d been left in an avalanche of snow on the Antarctic continent.