The Moonfire magic built within me like a rising tide, silver light cascading from my skin in waves that made the ancient trees around us hum with sympathetic resonance. I could feel every supernatural being within a hundred-mile radius as distinct points of warmth in my consciousness—thousands of individual flames waiting to be connected into a single blazing network of truth. "Luna, wait," Dante said urgently, his Alpha instincts screaming warnings about the power building around me. "If you burn yourself out attempting this—" "Then Stella grows up in a world where her people are kept divided by lies," I finished, my voice echoing with harmonics that made the air itself shimmer. "I won't let that happen." Lieutenant Stone stepped closer, his expression filled with an awe that bordered

