– Chapteri1 Damien’s POV The moment the mind-link was severed for good, I knew I had lost her. Completely. Isat in the ruins of my apartment for three days and three nights, surrounded by broken glass, blood- stained floors, and the haunting absence of her scent. On the fourth day, I finally moved. Thad to find answers. Isla’s words echoed in my head: Are you sure you remember who really saved you? I didn’t drive. I flew, the car a blur of metal and desperation. Chloe’s apartment.
She was the only one left who had known the real Isla. BANG, BANG, BANG! My fist hammered on her door. When it opened, Chloe’s face twisted in disgust. —- “Get lost,” she snarled, trying to slam it shut. I blocked it with my hand. “Tell me where Isla is.” “you have the nerve to come looking for her?” Chloe laughed, a bitter, ugly sound. “Don’t you have your little tramp to worry about?” “I need to talk to her.” “Talk about what? How you abandoned her at her own Mating Ceremony?
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Or how you got another woman pregnant?” “The pup was never mine!” I roared back. “Oh?” Chloe raised an eyebrow. “Then why did you mark her?” “Because I owe her my life! Five years ago, on the night of the Blood Moon-” “Shut up!” Chloe suddenly screamed. “What life do you owe her?” I froze. “Tell me! What really happened on the night of the Blood Moon?” Chloe advanced on me, her eyes blazing. “Who was it that saved you when you were —- dying?” “It was Seraphina…
she used her life energy-” “Liar!” Chloe’s voice dripped with rage. “You absolute fool!” She spun around, ran into her room, and came back with a glowing memory crystal. “You want the truth? Then watch this!” She activated the crystal, and an image materialized in the air. It was a night with a blood-red moon hanging in the sky. A young woman, covered in blood, was kneeling in the snow. It was Isla. She couldn’t have been more than eighteen, her face still soft with youth.
And cradled in her arms was a dying male wolf. Me.
