say I u

y blood was blue light now, running in rivers under my s

g tattooed hands fisted in the blue moss. The most ruthless Al

I could hear i

red, terrified.

looking up. "You used the old tongue. The Luna Vox. No one

ven know w

e. His amber eyes were black at the edges. "In a language

N

my chin again, tilting my face to the second moo

six boys didn't die. The bite turned them. They became the first second-moon wolves in a thousand years. They were taken to the mountains. Raised as Alphas. And they have been wait

went we

u awaken tonight when you made me kneel. The power you used - it went throu

his words, th

smelle

forest. Pine and blood. Smoke and ice. Leather an

tumbled back.

hispered against my ear. "Your wolf i

t have

do

my arms. My veins were glowing blue. It hurt. Goddess, it h

and grabbed

ts! It

The fury left. R

irst bite marked you. The second bite woke it. But you haven't finished th

e... turned

ie hu

yes, tears of blue ligh

you he

for a long second. Then he d

der my knees, one around my

n, Seco

he

jumped over a fallen log ten feet high. He jumped over my river in one leap. His bare feet made no s

ee line and I saw Black

res everywhere. Wolves on the walls, howling. Not the scared silent wolves of my valley - real, huge, alive wolve

e shouted. "Wha

pened before he even reached them. He ran through the crowd, through t

n on a huge bed covered in black furs. The room s

now. The blue was ev

bing his hand. "Am I goin

not because I made him - and holding my glowing hands in his hot ones. "Not whi

r slamm

eyes, face covered in blue tattoos.

that glows so bright even my blind eyes c

a. The legend. Bitten tw

oved fast, too fast for an old woman, to the be

d and fell to

red. "The Queen has return

killing her!" Kael snapped, bu

lind eyes reflecting my blue glow,

x of your brothers to this mountain. And they will burn Blackthorn to the ground to get to you. Because the first female second wolf in a thousand years does not belong

es wi

, then at me. "What

uld answer,

the dark blue forest, from the mount

ho

s that made the stone walls shake. That made ever

claim on me. They had

were

lding mine, his amber eyes turning black

ered. "They will be at th

me, her blind

e one hour to decide if you want