The Luna He Threw Away
No explanation, no instruction, can ready you for the instant your body takes over and begins the oldest work there is.
It came with the dawn. On the exact day it was meant to. Pale grey light spilled over the Aldris Lane townhouse, and I reached for Lysander, placing my hand on his arm as I woke him. My voice was steady, controlled, the same composed tone I had used across countless Voss-line dealings.
“It has begun.”
Lysander woke instantly. Not slowly never slowly but all at once, every instinct alive, every sense sharpened as only the last living Lycan’s could be. His gaze locked onto mine, reading the calm I was forcing into place over the storm rising inside me.