Sparkle
I got there just in time.
Any later, and it might’ve been too late.
The air was already pulsing with tension as I arrived, the old spell groaning beneath the weight of Zara’s changing energy. Her bloodline was beginning to stir—faint, but enough to make my skin crawl. Enough to make her wolf scratch at the door.
If her wolf awakens now… everything unravels.
She’ll feel him.
Rome.
And the moment she does, she’ll know.
Her wolf will recognize her true mate and demand him with a force that not even fate could undo. The bond between them was written into the bloodlines of two great legacies long before either of them took their first breath.
But I couldn’t let that happen.
Not yet. Maybe not ever.
So I strengthened the spell. Cloaked her tighter. Buried the magic deeper. Loc
