Chapter 6: Moonlit Confrontation

The full moon was a fever in my blood. For days, it had been building—a restless, prickling energy beneath my skin that made the castle walls feel like they were closing in. Caius’s training had unleashed something in me, and under the moon’s pull, that something was straining at its leash, wild and desperate for release. The bond hummed with a strange, anticipatory tension. Caius had been more distant than ever, his gaze lingering on me with a new, watchful intensity. He could feel it...