Black Claw: Bound by Fate
David, Darrel, and Derick’s Story
David’s always hated the sense of being observed, hated waking up with the copper taste of an immortal dad’s expectations curdling against his tongue. But on this morning, he can’t ignore the gravity in the upstairs hall, the way his mother’s nervousness has turned every window into a barely-repressed shake. He’s eighteen, which in this house is more wedding-vow than birthday: shift or be shifted, Luna-blood or not. The triplets—a family joke, his mother called them, but only when she was tipsy—have lived this whole life knowing that the next one is scheduled for the sunrise of their legal adulthood. Even the sun, it seems, can’t stop itself from dragging it
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