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I was at the very bottom of the Thornclaw Pack, a bastard son no one cared about. When I turned sixteen, everyone waited for me to shift. But nothing happened. I was wolfless, a defective, an outcast. The day my older brother Kane mated with the daughter of the Alpha of the Snowfield Pack, I was nothing more than an afterthought, dragged along to be mated, too. Then the she-wolf, who looked like she'd stepped right out of a moonlit dream, ended up in my bed on our mating night. She looked at me and said, "I can feel your inner wolf. It's been sealed away." It turned out there was forbidden sealing magic in the cup of wine Kane had handed to me, and it left me trampled into the dirt for sixteen years. Then she reached out and touched the old scar on the back of my neck. "I've been looking for you for ten years," she whispered. Later, under the moonlight, the ancient black wolf that had slept inside me finally opened its ice blue eyes.