DARLENE I grabbed the glass of water from my side table and drank it all in one gulp. My throat was dry, my heart was pounding, and my mind… it was a mess. The dream still echoed in my head like a voice I couldn’t push away. “Are you okay?” Lala, my wolf, asked gently through our mind link. I placed the empty glass down with shaking hands and took a deep breath. “No,” I answered. “How can I be okay? The Moon Goddess just spoke to me. In my dream. That doesn’t happen every day.” Lala was quiet for a moment. Then her voice returned, calm but full of meaning. “Maybe it’s because you are really fated to them… Alpha Zayn, Alpha Jerry, and Alpha Leonard. Maybe the Moon Goddess doesn’t want Margaret to have them. Maybe she knows Margaret is greedy, bad, and cunning.” I pressed my finger

