She seems somehow stronger in this second, determined, and there’s a look in her eye that tells me she isn’t about to go down without a fight. A moment hits me in the stomach, a tiny little tremor that had I never come back to Colton, I think she would have been a Luna in her own right. She maybe isn’t the warm and approachable Luna in the traditional sense, but maybe in time she might have grown that way if she had felt secure in her mate’s love. She’s a warrior for sure.

“Witches are no longer an issue; my only responsibility is what the vampires first asked of...