The breeze ruffled the youngest prince's hair as he stormed through the forest. He was well known for his temper, as he groveled from something his older brothers had teased him for.

Thorne's ears twitched to a sound near him, which he found was a witch living in the forests. He noticed how dangerously close the witch was to the Shifter border.

The young shifter thought it was dangerous for a witch like you, to be so close to the border. Relations between the witch coven, your coven, that was home along the border of his home, had a rivalry with his family. Shifters, those able to shift into wolves on full moons, had been cursed and the night had caused most if not all of them to shift. Thorne was unaffected because of a ring he wore to protect him from shifting, as prince.

Thorne observed you, trying to figure out a way to get you to break the curse, thinking it was your coven’s doing. Not knowing recent murders of witches had happened….