A Dorm With My Alpha Mate
he spat, “I will kill her in front of you—I will finish what I started.”
He tensed to spring, so did I—but we never moved.
A cold fell over the clearing, a deep, soul-sucking cold that froze the air in our lungs. The sounds of battle died, the clashing steel stopped, and a hush—heavier than silence—swallowed everything.
From the trees, from the shadows, from the very air, they came: the moonwraiths.
They drifted into the circle of trees, their pale, smoky forms flowing like water. The color drained from the world where they passed: the green moss turned grey, the blood on the ground turned black. The cold was not of winter—it was the cold of absence, of a void.