Claimed By The Lycan King
With each stride, each breath of wild air, each moment of unmediated connection to the world around me, I felt myself returning – not just the queen or the mate or the mother-to-be, but Emma, the werewolf who had run these forests long before crowns and conspiracies had complicated her life.
I burst into a small clearing, sunlight breaking through the clouds to illuminate my white fur, and knew with bone-deep certainty that this – this freedom, this wildness, this connection to my true nature – was what I needed to protect my daughters. Not walls or guards or well-intentioned lies, but strength and speed and the fierce joy of being exactly who I was meant to be.
Theo would be furious. The se