The Crescent Heir
She was back at the Blood-moon room, pulled there by forces beyond her control.
The five scion members were seated exactly as they had been during the evening feast—Deimon at the head, flanked by wealth and power incarnate. But something was wrong. The air tasted of copper and prophecy. Then she saw it again, clearer this time. A shape that watched with eyes like burning coals, ancient and hungry. It moved when no one else did. It breathed when the room held its breath, when even the Alpha himself seemed frozen in time.
And wrapped around its throat was a silver chain identical to the one Anna Wilson wore—the Luna's necklace, passed down through generations of pack mothers.