Shadow of the Moon by Kwen Griffeth

Author:Kwen Griffeth [Griffeth, Kwen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2017-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

Lloyd stepped to his mother. He encircled her with his arms and pulled her to him. The embrace was long and tender. The rumble from his throat was now more a hum than a growl, and the mother, arms at her sides, accepted the affection. He pulled back, eyes on the woman who raised him, and gave her a son-to-mother smile.

Then the smile dissolved, and silently, he raised his chin and exposed his throat. He volunteered his weak spot. He made vulnerable the area all wolves attack. He waited.

Andee watched. She didn’t know what she was watching, but an instinct in her whispered it was solemn and important. She didn’t know if she belonged, but she was glad she was there. She wanted to be there. This was family but also larger than family. Meeker had been family and Meeker was gone.

Gennadiya Lloyd lifted her face, her eyes focused on that vulnerable spot, exposed and defenseless, on her son’s neck. Emotions ripped through her, and tears blurred her vision and trickled down her cheeks. This man before her was her son, and he was awarding her the honor of being the first to recognize him for who he was and what he was about to become.

She looked at the strength of his jaw line. The set of his mouth. He was sure. He was confident and at that moment, after preparing him his entire life, she wished it on another. The path before him would be full of pain, loneliness, fear and of blood. Some of it his own. He was now the Unum, the one who set the example. The one others were to emulate.

Gennadiya Lloyd knew her son had strong feelings for Andee. Maybe he loved her. In moments, the woman would be lost to him forever. He stood before her, throat exposed, asking for her to recognize him for what she had wanted him to be since before his birth. He sacrificed himself to her dream for him. Doing so, he gave up his desire for the non-Pauci woman. She wished he didn’t have to.

She rose to her toes, and she kissed her son, the Unum, at the point of his jaw, that spot where under the skin, the carotid artery and the jugular vein run. That lethal place where, by instinct and training, every wolf attacks. The one place above all others that must be protected during combat. Gennadiya’s kiss was small in action, but it held a lifetime of significance. Andee didn’t recognize the gesture, but she saw the love expressed by their eyes, one for the other, and she desired that love in her life.

Alwyn dropped his arms to his sides and stepped back. As he released her, he lowered his face, and again, looked into his mother’s eyes. Their eyes held for a brief moment, and in that moment he silently acknowledged his mother. He was who she had wanted him to be. Now, he wanted her proud of him.

He lowered his gaze to the floor, and mimicked a helpless stance.

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