PrologueThe Moon did not speak to everyone.Only to those it chose.And even then, its voice was not gentle.It came in fragments—whispers carried through dreams, visions that bled into reality, and silence that weighed heavier than truth.Long before kingdoms of wolves marked their borders, the Moon Goddess had already written a fate that no Alpha could escape.A child would be born.Marked not by bloodline, but by loss.Not by memory, but by emptiness.And within that emptiness… power would sleep.In the depths of a forgotten forest, a girl ran barefoot through broken branches and wet soil.Her breath came in sharp, uneven gasps.She did not know her name.She did not know where she came from.She only knew one thing—survive.Behind her, shadows moved.Not human.Not fully wolf.Hunters.A rogue was not meant to live long in wolf territory.Especially not one like her.Pepper-red hair clung to her face as she pushed forward, refusing to fall even as her legs trembled.Then—silence.Too sudden.Too clean.She stopped.A voice slid into her mind like moonlight through cracked glass.You are being followed.Her fingers curled.She looked up at the sky through the branches.The moon hung high.Full.Watching.“…Who are you?” she whispered.The forest did not answer.But the voice did.You already know me.Her pulse stuttered.That voice had come before—in dreams she could never remember upon waking, in moments of danger when something unseen guided her steps.She swallowed hard.“Why can I hear you?”A pause.Then—Because you were never meant to be alone.A crack echoed through the trees.Too close.The hunters were here.Her body moved before her fear could fully form.She ran again.Far beyond the forest, in a territory ruled by iron strength and blood loyalty, a different world waited.Walls of stone.Training grounds soaked in sweat and discipline.A pack built by war.And at its center stood an Alpha who had long stopped believing in mercy.Kael.He did not look at the moon when it rose.He had learned long ago that the sky did not care for him.But tonight, for the first time in years…He felt something shift in the air.Like a thread tightening.Like something lost was being pulled back toward him.And far away, in the dark forest, a girl who could not remember her past kept running toward a fate she could not escape.Even if she did not yet know it.