The Professor’s Mate: The Moonborn Legacy
“You feel it, don’t you? The pull. The power. It doesn’t belong here with weakness. It belongs with strength. With me.”
My lip curled. Tears burned tracks through the dirt on my face, but my voice stayed steady. “No.”
The word landed hard.
Caleb’s face twisted. “Wrong choice.”
He exploded forward, his claws lengthened in an instant, slashing toward my chest.
I threw my hands up, desperate to call the light back, but it sputtered, thin, faltering. I braced for the rip of flesh.
A black shape crashed between us.
Sebastian.
He took the strike full force. Caleb’s claws punched through his chest with a sickening tear of muscle and bone. Sebastian grunted, blood spraying from his mouth, yet he loc