The Price Of Fate
I knew that scent even under blood and magic and cold wind.
The white wolf became a woman. White hair, wild from the shift. Eyes still holding traces of purple power. And for one heartbeat, the entire world held still because, Elaine. Nyra’s mother. The disgraced Prima. The outcast in the cabin. The woman my mother hated like she was poison. She stood there barefoot on blood-wet grass as if she belonged on a battlefield more than any Luna I had ever met.
My father completed his shift back too, snapping into human form with a violent inhale. He was shirtless, skin streaked with blood, his chest heaving, eyes blazing.