wasn't go

ing as she climbed the stairs

g to her skin, river water dr

nge. Should do something

g the Alpha of th

still too close to the surfac

ait another moment. Not whe

ets that could have prepare

nd of the hall, behind a he

s. The light was on-she co

e. Probably reviewing patr

thousand other things an Alph

ved the door open hard enou

ooked up from his

io

ame out raw, desperate.

s eyes-the same green as h

er her, taking in her dish

e wild look

urged forward with sudden, v

-silver wolf. The same scent

marked his mate. Cian's gr

ury that made Kieran's h

ith desperate understanding.

OTECT HER. MUS

wn on his face, watched the

olf processed

uietly, but his voice carri

wolf who had lost one silve

g ano

r me f

ere was Alpha command in hi

, the kind that made pack m

d three rogues with a power s

being o

t behind her. The click of the

sudden

t wasn't a question. Cian was

the residual power that

cked. "I shifted into somethin

r like moonlight, like starlig

s attacked me, when they had

unmade them. They're gone. T

he g

her whole body trembling w

fusion. Relief that she wasn't

d become

n drove the movement-the Alp

ter from whatever danger migh

id grace of a predator, ever

you h

sob. "No, I'm fine, I'm perfe

nce, and I don't even know h

Dad-wha

n said, and there was so mu

t backed down. Almost. Cian

ds. Our daughter. Our blesse

a Moonstone, and you'r

stopping him. "Don't give me

hat bullshit. I want the truth

teenth birthday, when I didn't

lieved. So

ian snarled with the weight o

at her, and Fiona could see

rets to protect his pack. Th

uths. The wolf who had watch

nt the same fate

d heavy with resignation-bot

table. "S

to sit down. I

it down anyway, because this

armchair across from h

ad heard her father give o

ty. But she'd rarely heard

legs suddenly w

hair, but he didn't sit. Ins

ds below. Cian pressed clos

Kieran's shoulders tense, hi

as if he were looking at som

k at Elara, at eve

er was a s

tween them. Fiona's breath c

d loss-the mate bond that

d been take

oon goddess," Kieran contin

ed through. "It's rare-so r

gend, stories told to pups a

real. And she wa

ith aching reverence. Power

om

ona's voice was barely a whi

s could

't." Kieran turned to face

olf-made Fiona's chest ache

in the way his hands trembl

ves run through the female l

e her. But it doesn't always

pears in one daughter but no

Siobhan woul

flaring hot in her chest. "Yo

t, final. "Fiona, silver wo

s that other wolves don't-he

can't, see paths that haven

they have power. The kind of

ke, to reduce enemies to no

gift," Fiona said, b

s clenched into fists at his s

ys carry Alpha-level power, r

t means? A female Alpha is

oddess, capable of bearing

nce?" He shook his head. "Yo

are people-factions, organi

to poss

d the arm of the chair, her k

e

Breed you." Kieran's voice

Cian snarled with remember

ho had tried to break his mat

ome would prefer that-but t

to create bloodlines that co

be weapons. You wo

a's throat. "That

what happened

still water, sending ripples o

sh echoed through Kieran's

the moment the mate bond