THE LYCAN TSAR’S REJECTED CROWN
The crimson aura beneath my skin flared out of control, pulsing in jagged, unpredictable bursts that melted the snow drift around me into a pool of bubbling, steaming water.
I dragged my shivering hands to my face, clutching at my head as a sharp, agonizing pressure flared at my scalp.
“My hair…” I gasped through the agony, my sight blurring as I brought a lock of my own hair into view.
The jet black strands I had carried my entire life, the color every Omega in the North Ridge had mocked, were changing. Starting from the roots, a brilliant, terrifying silver was eating through the black, traveling down the strands like a fuse lit on fire.