Luna Aurora (Alpha Fenrir)

Chapter

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The argument erupted as they walked home, their voices carrying through the quiet woods.

"You're suffocating me, Dain!" Elyra snapped, stopping abruptly and spinning to face him. Her silver hair gleamed in the twilight, her golden eyes flashing with frustration. "Suffocating you?" Dain's voice rose, his fists clenched at his sides. "I'm trying to protect you! Do you have any idea what's out there? What they'll do to you if they find you?" "I'm not a child!" she shouted. "I can take care of myself!"

Dain stepped closer, his fiery orange eyes boring into hers. "You don't get it, do you? You think I'm doing this because I don't trust you? I don't trust them. And I can't-" He cut himself off, shaking his head as though the words were too much. "Can't what?" Elyra demanded, her voice trembling.

Dain's breath hitched, his frustration boiling over. "I can't lose you!"

raw and unguarded. Elyra's heart pounded as the space between them felt charged with something she didn't want to

looked away, his jaw tight. "You don't understand what it's like. Every time someone

and dangerous. Before she could think, she reached out, her fingers brushing

to hers. Their proximity felt

have," he murmured, his voice

fleeting kiss. It was electric and overwhelming, both of them clinging to something

as it began, it ended. Dain pulled back, his breathing ragged, his

his

back, her hand flying to her lips as if trying to

she stammered, her cheeks