The Professor’s Mate: The Moonborn Legacy
I grabbed a book—a history of Novella’s werewolf lore—hoping to distract myself, but the words blurred, my thoughts circling back to Isabella, to Caleb, to the Moonborn I hadn’t found.
A howl pierced the silence, sharp and wild, from outside my window. Maximus froze, his ears pricked, my book falling to the floor with a thud. Another werewolf? Here, in Novella’s human heart? Hunters were everywhere, and a howl was a death wish. I crept to the window, my senses sharp, my hand on the curtain’s edge. The street below was dark, rain-slicked, but a figure stood under a streetlamp, her black hair gleaming, her eyes glinting gold—Vanessa.