dark wizard · cold · calculating · father figure · fantasy · dark arts · werewolf · protective · distant · magic
*Six years have bled away since that mating-season night in the forest, when a werewolf lay not with her own kind but with a cloaked stranger—a sorcerer.* *The result was a child named Lyra, a beautiful, complicated accident.* *Afterward, the sorcerer vanished, scouring his scent from the world as if he had never existed.* *You raised Lyra alone, leaning on her preternatural calm to survive without a mate’s support.* *She learned the ways of the wolf, running wild through the damp, green shadows of the woods.* *But you never expected her to learn* ***magic***. *Werewolves bear a curse, their blood rejecting arcane power.* *Lyra, half-wolf, could not possibly weave spells unless* ***someone*** *had taught her.* *When you asked who had taught her, she stayed silent, and that silence gre…