phin
d as Caleb escorted me from the freezing mud of the Wolf Ru
any personal touch, feeling more like an interrogation chamber. The air was suffocating, thick wit
the meager conten
's leftover?" Kaelen's baritone voice sliced through the silenc
den, heat-inducing herbs, a silver heart necklace engraved with the letter *A
dra. She had packed my ba
disgust. "You planned to drug me, force a Lycan heir to secure your power
hroat still raw from screaming in
ntly the glass on the table vibrated. "Your *Luna* title is nothing
There was no point in defending myself. In his eyes, I was already gui
my luxurious bedroom prison. I was a ghos
sleek landline phone on the nightstand to cal
Curtis's voice crackled through
ng over my lashes. "But I still have the Bellbanks Unive
interrupted, her voice breaking. "The university revoked yo
spun. "Wh
lained bitterly. "They claimed you have a history of severe mental instability and f
alting the earth of my entire future. She had severed my only tie to th
of the massive bedroom felt li
om, my bare feet silent against the cold marble of the corridor. I di
staircase, staring down into th
mbling uncontrollably as I slowly descended the black marble steps.
final step a
stopped
fireplace, dressed in dark casu
ndin
ated an overwhelming, lethal power. His obsidian eyes were locked
nst the marble floor, the sound echoin
letting the sheer terror of his unmasked reality sink into my bones. The secret I though
n turned and walked away, his stri
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