The city of Oakhaven had always tasted of salt and secrets. For Willow, returning to its skyline was like stepping back into a furnace that had once reduced her to ash. But as the private jet descended through the thick coastal fog, she didn't feel like the discarded omega who had been pushed into the Black-Vein River five years ago.
She felt like the storm that was about to break the shore.
She smoothed the silk of her emerald-green gown, a color specifically chosen to contrast with the stark black-and-silver palette of the Blood-Moon Pack. Today, she wasn't Willow. She was Lady Adeline Vane, the CEO of Vane Industries and the primary investor for the Northern Territory’s new clean-energy initiative. The pseudonym was her armor, and her "Luna Awakening" power was the silent heartbeat p
