Prologue
Natsuki paced back and forth, hands clasped behind her back asher royal cloak fluttered with her powerful strides.
The patrons around her all sat in silence, watching their leader display emotion, something very rare. Hours passed and the room stayed in deathly silence, until Natsuki suddenly shot her head up.
Everyone else was startled by her sudden change, and after a minute people descended the large mahogany stairs of the palace.
Natsuki could sense something wrong, and she stood numb at the reproachful gazes of the people before her.
"Alpha-sama," The one closest to her said in a sorry tone, "we tried everything we could... but..."
Natsuki started to shake, her eyes started glowing a bright green and her teeth grew to furious canines causing everyone near her to cower in fear.
Her fist spun around and slammed into an offending wall; the whole wall breaking to shambles and the entire mansion quaking before she fell to her knees.
A few feet away, only one patron dared to analyze their leader, her eyes shining with personal victory and an evil smirk twisted on her face.
Natsuki let out a painful howl into the night air, the sound of a wolf in sorrow.
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Well into the night, a lone figure miles from the mansion heard the howl and stopped in her tracks.
Her face concealed by a cloak, two babies slept soundly in her carriage. Her eyes stung with tears but she refused to let them fall, whipping the leather onto her horses as they started trotting again.
Natsuki... Forgive me, love, but I had to do it for our children's safety.