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The moon hung high above Silvermist, casting a pearlescent glow over the quiet campus. The breeze was light, just enough to whisper through the trees lining the edge of the thick woods that bordered the lake. The world was asleep, but Teresa was not.
Drawn by something unexplainable, she had slipped away from her dorm in silence, leaving Catherine peacefully asleep on the opposite bed. She told herself she only wanted to see the lake—see the reflection of the full moon dance across the surface. But in her heart, she knew it was more. Since returning from her weekend work at the library, she had been restless.
There was a pull.
That *same* pull.
The one she felt on the night of the welcome party—the one that made her wolf stir restlessly in her chest, searching for something, someo
