The Cursed Lone Wolf They All Despised
Twelve years after I burned to death at the border sanctuary, I stood before Ryan again during his final Moonlight Trial.
My name was Erin. At eighteen, I was the packless lone wolf everyone on the border knew as trouble, and Ryan Blackwood was the nameless boy who had grown up beside me.
We hunted together, fought together, and survived winters that should have broken us. Before the fire, his wolf had already recognized me as his fated mate. We had not completed the bond yet. We thought we had time.
Then an enemy pack attacked the sanctuary at night and set the cabins on fire.
I dragged Ryan, bleeding from a silver wound and barely conscious, through a burning hallway and shoved him outside