AFTER DIVORCE, I BECAME A LUNA
Second girl, smaller, coughed, "My wolf tries to wake at ten, like Liam, son of Cole and Candice, they said I will die before twelve."
Little Jo, ten years old, looked at me with big silver-blue eyes, "Will I die, like doctors said you would die at five."
I knelt with Caelum still in arms and put honey-covered hand on little Jo's cheek, "No, Jo, you will not die, listen to me, my mom Gwen was twelve when she first shifted and crystal wall bowed and council called her cursed and later drained her on obsidian table beneath capital and made her barren and buried her blood under east wall, and when I woke at five too early and destroyed myself from inside Cole filed divorce and cut her off and w