Ashbound Moon
Then the Beta stepped forward with a daughter at his side—tall, polished, wearing a ceremonial gown like she’d been born into it.
Selah Dorne.
Her scent rolled across the clearing like roses over rot—too sweet, too sharp, too deliberate.
Kieran faced her without looking away from me.
“I accept Selah Dorne,” he said, as if the words didn’t cost him anything.
The priest hesitated—then lifted the bowl, forced by politics, by pressure, by the pack’s watching eyes.
The Moonwater shimmered.
And then—
It turned black.
A ripple spread across the surface, dark as bruised ink.
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