Seraphine's POV
The young wolves came to me in the third month after Amara's first word.
Not officially. Not with Ryder's blessing, though he knew it was happening. They came because word had spread through the pack that there was a woman who could teach them something that the traditional training yards could not. They came because I had spent the last two months training in the yard every morning, and every morning I had moved faster, hit harder, and thought more clearly than I had the day before.
They came because I was a woman who had fought her way to survival and they wanted to know how.
The first one was a girl named Kess. She was maybe fifteen, all sharp angles and angrier than a person that young should be. She watched me train one morning and then came to stand beside me whil
