The Lycan King’s Broken Mate
The mist trembled.
“You are pieces of the past,” I hissed. “But I am the present. And I decide who rules my dream.”
Rowan snarled and whipped out his shadowblade. His blade was never metal, but dark, pliant, deeply throbbing shadow-stuff—alive, like pain born from flesh. With one sweep he slashed at me, but I slipped aside. It wasn’t fear that pulsed in me anymore, but magic. I lifted my fingers and summoned a blade woven of moonlight—slender, elegant, curved, like a slice of the full moon.