Chapter 6
Seven days ago. I awoke in the Moon Goddess’s temple
When I opened my eyes, silver moonlight spilled over everything, vast and boundless
The Moon Goddess spoke to me in the divine tongue. She looked at me the way a mother looks at her child.
“You have fulfilled your promise.”
I nodded. “I’ve died one hundred times.
Her fingertip brushed lightly against my
my neck–I
The place where Victor had once marked me.).
The mark faded away like mist in the wind ||
The seal on my weir soul began to loosen slowly rising like a de
In the divine light, I saw a white wolf reshaping itself from ashes, reforming.
I had returned to the moment of awakening
Outside the door. I could already sense Dante’s emotions–his scent, his pulse, the thythms of his heartbeat–all exposed to my heightened wolf perception |
Histone revealed unhidden greed, hostility toward me, and possessiveness over Grey.
To him, I was a sudden intruder–an “outsider werewolf with a name but no place |
But I didn’t care.
When I was three, I was taken into the mountains, caled by an offshoot can of the Northern Ridge Moon Tribe ||
Later, I joined Victor’s
‘s park and became his Luna. I had never returned to the Stone family.|
Dante, to me, was a stranger
The only reason I came back-
by sister, Grey Stone.]]
Was for my
I only lived in the stone family home for three y
| years:]]
But during those three years, she was the firs–and only–person who ever truly held my hand
My mother had shut down emotionally after giving birth to me.
No servant dated approach mer!
My father kept his distance]
Only Grey was different. |
the was seven years older, kind and mature even as a child
me to sleep, fred me.
From her. I felt the only shred of warmth that could be called family.
He was a gamona, yet talked and acted like a spoded omera|||
Its speech wavered, his breath was uneven—|
Classic signs of a weak wolf on the ver
- verge of a control outburst
- i frowned slightly-|||
The welf soul torn apart and pieced back tingether time and again=||||
Tach rebirth didn’t grani immortality.
In chipped away at my soul.
Elder had warnedine resurrection wasn’t a gift.||
I believed him []
Not because of fate,||
But because I could feel it-
This body had been burning through the wolf soul ever
1 day want to die[]
Not for Victor
Not
for revenge.
But because I still had a sister.]
If something happened to me ||
What would happen to her?]]
-SCREECH-
The bas suddenly braked hard
the moment 1 awoke.
I snapped out of my thoughts, instinctively grabbing the rail in front of me to
Seated in the first row, 1 looked up
The sight in front of me made my expression shift.||