The Werewolf's Bride
The packs had merged, not through conquest but through choice, through the promise of a child who carried both lines in her blood.
Lyra grew tall and fierce, silver-black fur shimmering like moonlight on obsidian, eyes that shifted with her moods, brown when she laughed, silver when she hunted, midnight when she dreamed. She ran the forests with the other young wolves, climbed the battlements at dawn, listened to stories of the bridge who had bled willingly and the Alpha who had refused to let her fall. She knew her mother’s scars, knew her father’s strength, knew her grandmother’s quiet wisdom. She knew she was loved before she knew she was powerful.