Black Claw: Bound by Fate
she said, voice all teeth and wedding bells.
The ceremony was valley-ancient, half theater and half pickled folklore, impossible to tell which rules mattered and which were inherited by mistake. Six elders waited by the fire pit, sticks carved with the names of every former Alpha. Out in the yard, the pack ringed the bonfire, a hundred strong, every wolf in human skin or close enough for the first part. The triplets stood in the center, bare but for the ceremonial sashes—blue for David, sign of power; red for Darrel, sign of passion; black for Derick, sign of judgment.
The eldest spoke first, shuffling forward on knees that had knelt through more winters than she cared to admit. “Do you, son
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