The Alpha’s Rejected Human Luna
The metallic tang of his breath, of my own fear‑spiked sweat, fills my nose.
“If you touch me again,” I manage, voice shaking but clear, “I’ll rip your throat out myself.”
They laugh.
“You don’t have fangs, human,” Lanky says, baring his own.
“Don’t need them,” I say. “I know where your eyes are.”
He leans in, crowding me harder against the wall. “Big words for something that breaks so easy.”
My heart is a drum. The bond snaps like a wire under tension.
*Move,* that new, wild instinct screams.