Chapter 5

The pain hit a heartbeat after the howl. It felt like someone had tied a thread around my ribs seven years ago and was now pulling it out through my spine, inch by inch. I dropped to my knees in the wet grass. And then I wasn't in the clearing anymore. I was inside him. The Moon Hall. Torchlight on silver-veined stone. Forty wolves at the obsidian table, their eyes glowing amber. His father, Alpha Magnus, at the head, goblet raised, a heavy hand on Selene's shoulder. "Good blood, this girl,"...