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    Broken Moon: Part 2
    Broken Moon: Part 2
    Broken Moon: Part 2
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    Broken Moon: Part 2

    By Claudia King

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    Time has passed for April since the night that changed her life forever, but the reality of her situation is still only just beginning to set in. She must adapt, find a new mate, and continue on as a dutiful female to her pack.
    Still an outsider to the insular Highland wolves, Cyan is unable to leave April to face her fate alone after the night they shared together, but there is little he can do to save her from a life he knows she will live to regret.
    The Highland Pack are beginning to question their leadership, their traditions and future becoming unclear, and amidst all of their upheaval there is only one simple, impulsive desire for both April and Cyan to seek comfort in. A forbidden desire, and one which will have severe consequences for both of them should they give in to it.

    *UPDATE*
    As of May 2014 I have condensed the serial down into five parts rather than nine, with each instalment now being roughly double the previous length. Happy reading!

    Part 2 of 5.
    25240 words in length. Contains explicit descriptions of sex.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaudia King
    Release dateDec 19, 2013
    ISBN9781310882388
    Broken Moon: Part 2
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    Claudia King

    Claudia King is a writer based in the United Kingdom. She studied Creative Arts at university and continues to maintain a passionate interest in storytelling (both naughty and nice) across many forms of media. She owns a banana plant.

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    Broken Moon - Claudia King

    BROKEN MOON, PART 2

    Claudia King

    Published by Claudia King at Smashwords

    Copyright © 2014 Claudia King

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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    Broken Moon, Part 2

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    Over the month that passed after Harper's death Cyan felt like an observer staring in through a window at the Highland Pack. Perhaps he was the only one who could see it was affecting them, as everyone else seemed to be isolated in their own personal world of mourning for their lost companion.

    He began to realise that these people didn't hold the same selfish detachment to others that many werewolves possessed; the Highland Pack were a family, and the loss of just a single member was a blow to the collective whole. There were no households or dynasties amongst these people, everyone was a brother or sister, a son or a daughter, a mother or a father. Most of the elder werewolves had helped to raise Harper when he was young, those who had grown up with him viewed him as a sibling, and the two or three youngsters among them had admired and respected him as someone to look up to.

    Rather than getting to know these people and integrate himself with their society, Cyan was constantly reminded of his place as an outsider every time a wistful memory was shared or an old story told about Harper around the camp fire.

    All of them dealt with it in their own way. A party had gone out to retrieve Harper's body as soon as the blizzard died down, and a small ceremony was held at a lonely ridge overlooking the forest below where the pack buried their dead. There were no grave markers, only a loose ring of stones to cordon off the edge of the area, a line that Cyan was careful not to cross as he watched the funeral from a respectful distance.

    He hadn't seen April there. Despite his promise to himself to see her safe and secure before he moved on, he barely caught a glimpse of the girl outside her cabin for weeks on end. As hard as he tried to dismiss the memory of the night they'd spent together, to treat it with the kind of practical detachment he knew he should, he still woke in his bed remembering the warmth of her skin against his lips, the desperate grip of her fingers around his neck and the piercing need in her expression as she'd gazed into his eyes. Perhaps it had just been too long since he'd been that intimate with a female, but something about her had gotten under his skin, nagging like an itch and bringing a tightness to his chest on the few occasions he caught a glimpse of her red hair through a window or heard her soft voice speaking from across the camp.

    Her absence worried him, but Ingrid reassured him that she was dealing with her loss in her own way, and Blackthorn's angry gaze was quick to fall on him whenever he caught himself staring in the direction of her doorway.

    It was clear the other male still didn't trust him. In any other pack Blackthorn would likely have been the clear choice of alpha, but the strange social structure of the Highland Pack kept him as more of an enforcer and protector; respected by the others, but still subordinate to the guidance of the three elders, Ingrid, Harriet, and Gene.

    Harriet, he came to learn, was the scowling old woman he'd seen arguing with Ingrid on the day he and April returned to camp after Harper's death. Gene was a quiet older male with streaks of grey in his waist-length black hair. He rarely appeared in the camp, content to wander the mountain slopes by himself and hide away in his secluded cabin on the edge of the small community. Of the three pack elders, he was the one that worried Cyan the most. Ingrid and Harriet were at least passionate and concerned with the wellbeing of their group, but Gene seemed detached and vacant, barely even engaging with the two women and leaving most of the decisions in their hands.

    Ingrid and Harriet fought almost constantly. Any idea the younger woman proposed was immediately questioned and rebuked by the elder, and decisions amongst the pack seemed to be governed by which one of them tired of bickering first rather than by any real consensus. Fortunately Harriet's age kept her from being as active a member of the pack as Ingrid, and much like Gene she spent most of her time in her own cabin away from the everyday goings on of her people.

    One thing was clear to Cyan after a few days of living amongst the Highland Pack; their leadership was a mess. Several times each day he was forced to grit his teeth and fight the urge to take control and give orders when the decision making ground to a halt because of a heated argument or a difference of opinion. Perhaps a group of elders had led this pack well in the past, but it wasn't a system that was working for them any longer.

    He worried about April having to live in a community like this. They weren't bad people, but everything they did was so steeped in the ideas of tradition and community that nobody was willing to speak up and question that anything might be wrong. After seeing even wolves as independent as Blackthorn submit to the expectations of their pack without a moment's hesitation, he had no doubt that April's misgivings about her future were well founded. Everyone was expected to fall into place here, and April's place was as a mate and a mother, regardless of whether Harper was still alive or not.

    Cyan's own place was less clear. Nobody seemed sure what to make of him, and the reactions of the Highland Pack varied from guarded curiosity to outright distaste. Everyone was too caught up in the wake of Harper's death to pay him any real attention, and even Ingrid, who had at first seemed so curious to learn from him, had taken more than two weeks to finally invite him into her cabin to talk.

    Am I still welcome to stay here? he had said as he sat down on the woven chair across from hers in front of the fireplace.

    As long as you want, Ingrid replied, tying her greying hair back as she looked at him with weary eyes. It's been a hard time for all of us, but I don't want you to think we've forgotten about you. A lot of the others don't like that I let you stay, but I believe April when she says you saved her life out there.

    How is she?

    Grieving, like all of us. Ingrid fixed him with a long, curious stare, and for a moment Cyan caught a glimpse of a true leader's cunning in her eyes. "She won't talk about that

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