SERA

The training yard was at the east end of the compound, a wide packed-dirt field surrounded by a low stone wall. Six of Kael's warriors were running morning drills when I walked out at dawn in tight-fitting training gear with my hair pulled back and my fists already wrapped.

The conversation died the second they saw me.

I knew what they were seeing. The new Luna, the one the Alpha kept at arm's length, the one everyone whispered about because she slept alone in the guest wing while Cora ...