The lycan king’s regret
It was heavier than it looked, the cover soft and a little sticky with age.
It opened plainly enough:
Each alpha has a prophecy, and it will always come to pass.
Weird, I thought. The kind of line that means nothing until, suddenly, it means everything. I almost put it back right there. I wish I had.
I kept reading instead.
The Tenth Lycan King will conceive a child with his Luna. The child will be the most powerful and most feared in history.
I read it again, slower.
Then a third time, waiting for the words to rearrange themselves into something that made more sense, something less impossible.