Caitlyn's POV

Six nights. That was all the time we had left. Selene’s words echoed in my mind, the weight of them pressing against my chest like an invisible hand. The blood moon was coming, and with it, the Prime Wolf would rise unless we sealed him away first. If we failed, if we didn’t act in time, his soul would take form through my blood, and everything we had fought for would be lost.

I spent the day finalizing the sealing ritual. The ritual I had designed. The one that could stop the Prime Wolf forever, but at a terrible cost. It required two anchors—one of origin blood, my...