Marked by the Lycan King
I stood at the center of the hall, let the moonlight fall on me, and felt the moon-born gift respond to it the way it always did now, warm and immediate and entirely certain, the alignment of something that had always been in me and had simply been waiting for me to understand what it was.
Jasper stood across from me. He had changed from the healer’s medical robe into the formal dress of the Lycan King dark, precise, the particular authority of a man who had been trained to fill this specific kind of moment. He looked like what he was. He also looked, in the way he watched me cross the hall, like something underneath the man I had been learning over weeks of conversations, midnight teas, and