Chrome and Claws
“And what exactly do you think you are, Raven Blackthorne?”
Her throat tightened. “I’m a wolf. One of the Moon Riders now. That’s all.”
He pushed away from the wall, taking a slow step forward. The torchlight caught on the scar running across his lower jaw, turning it silver. “Wolves don’t tear chains like paper. Wolves don’t heal with a touch that bends death and wolves,” he murmured, “don’t set the blood moon alight.”
Her wolf bristled, claws pressing against her skin. She remembered too vividly, how the chains burned her wrists, the power that had surged up in her veins, alien and consuming. The way the red moon had seemed to answer her, as though she belonged to it.