Bound By the Moon
Still, the harsh reality of the pack weighed heavily, suffocating, constant.
By the hearth, the remnants of the day’s work lay scattered: water buckets, pots, scraps of food. I sank to my knees again, scrubbing furiously, feeling the familiar ache in my muscles. My mind drifted to a simpler time, before Maxwell, before rejection—when my mother would read to me from old stories of the Moon Goddess and her chosen mates.
I remembered laughing, warmth spreading through my chest, her hands holding mine as she said, “One day, your mate will come, Emily. You’ll feel it in your soul.”
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