Chapter 21. Unleashing Power

Celeste’s POV

Ever since I was a little girl, I have felt like an outcast. The other girls mocked me for my inability to shift, their taunts echoing through every childhood memory. The males never even glanced in my direction, dismissing me as entirely undesirable. My only friend was Lira, and when she was gone, I thought I had lost the only person who ever cared for me. Now, I have my sisters and these rejected warriors at my side—I believed they were the only ones who could possibly accept me. But then he appeared: a lone hunter who, despite the danger swirling all around us, risked his life to protect me.

I still wonder why he saved me. I would have dodged that bolt of lightning, if I’d known it was coming… yet he leapt in front of it. He must have thought I was human—after all, I looked human to him. Didn’t he transform and fight Harmony when she was in human form? How did he realize Harmony was a werewolf but not see through me? My mind raced with confusion a