[Phreya]

"We need to get to the plaza! We need to warn the pack!" I yelled over the deafening screeching echoing through the trees, sprinting toward the forest boundary to find the others.

My mother’s hand clamped around my forearm like a steel vice, halting me in my tracks. "Do not waste your breath running to them, Phreya."

"Why not?" I countered, my eyes flaring violet as my lunar power surged to my fingertips. "They don't know the wards are down—"

"If your father and your true mate ...