C21 The Edge of Awakening

The moon hung heavy above the forest,silver light spilling across the Blackthorn Pack’s training grounds. The airsmelled of frost and pine, and Selene’s breath curled into little clouds as sheexhaled. The night was quiet, deceptively so, but inside her chest, her heart wouldn’tstop racing.

She wasn’t the girl she had been two yearsago.

At eighteen, she had been scarred, broken