LUNAR VEIL
“Tell her the fairy tale you kings like to spin.”
Kael’s eyes flicked to him, then back to her. “It isn’t a fairy tale.”
He moved closer to the firelight. The flicker lit the hard lines of his face, the controlled strength in the way he carried himself.
“In our kind,” Kael said slowly, “a mate is not just a partner. It is the other half of your soul. The one who steadies the beast, anchors the hunger, sharpens the power. Without a mate, we burn through centuries empty. With a mate—” His voice roughened, that growl trembling closer to the surface. “—we are whole.”
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