The moment I left Moonlight Pack, I didn't turn back to look at the city I'd called home for over twenty years.
The pain of the severed Mate Bond still lingered in my body, but I knew if I could just survive this stretch, I'd come out the other side reborn.
And I wasn't quite as friendless as Alpha Ryan had cursed me to be.
As the youngest senior Healer in the entire alliance, my name had been on the Wolf Council's roster for years.
I dialed a number I hadn't touched in a long, long time.
"Hello? Is this the Dean of the Royal Lycan Academy? It's Aria."
"That position you offered me a while back.Chief Medical Instructor. I'm accepting."
The voice on the other end cracked with delight. A private car was on its way to me within the hour.
Three months later.
I'd settled fully into lif
