The Alpha’s Shadow Luna
“I am eternal! I have worn a hundred bodies! I will wear a hundred more!”
Darien’s jaws opened, and the sound that came out was not a roar. It was a sentence, dragged through the lycan’s throat.
“Not. This. One.”
The shadows struck.
They came from every direction at once, tendrils lancing through the smoke, and they didn’t grab Mary’s body. They went through it, into it, wrapping around the writhing darkness inside, the true Eyera, the parasite that had hidden inside my sister’s corpse for years. I watched the shadows drag her partially out of the stolen flesh, a screaming shape of smoke suspended between worlds, and Darien’s claws closed around her.