The Lycan King’s Broken Mate
The cloth that had held my body’s warmth now for an instant stretches taut across the dark arm, and in that tautness is the memory of my body, of the stance learned in one night and taken away in one heartbeat, leaving me to fight for years to regain it.
“Child of shadow,” he says once more, now from farther away, and the water does all it can: roaring, shaking, pelting, but the dark crosses through as if the torrent were only a shadow on a wall. “There is no evil in him. Only movement.” The last word he speaks from the other side already, and the spray falls back into the basin as though it had never tried.
Mae leaps to the stone at once, smoothing the scratches, pressing her palm into the