I needed answers, so I dug into every record I could find on Eric and his bloodline. What I uncovered sent a chill down my spine.
Over a century ago, the Moon Goddess herself had cursed his family. They had been stripped of their wolves, turned into mere humans—an eternal punishment for their betrayal. The story was infamous among our kind. Selene’s own daughter had been mated into their bloodline. But instead of cherishing her, her mate had marked and mated her on sight, only to later reject and murder her for his mistress. The Goddess’s wrath had been swift and absolute, dooming his descendants to a life without their wolves.
Until Khalil.
He was the first of their bloodline in over a hundred years to be born a wolf. And now it made sense—why Eric wanted him so badly. Why he had plann
