Thorn
was thick with the smell of mildew and defeat. A single, hard cot was pu
niform. "Your new clothes," she sneered, the word 'Wolfless' a venomous his
ound of a key turning in the lock echo
the past twenty-four hours pressed down on me, a physical weight threatening to suff
't want to give them the satisfaction, but the tears came anyway, silent and hot, soaking the r
g and laced with irritat
's loud, and we h
mering against my ribs as I scanned the em
tion, my grief-addled mi
earer this time. *"I'm in here. With you. I've been awake for a wh
throat. An inner wolf? But... they
d a question in my
e dense for not figuring out how to let me out, but I am most definitely here."* The voice was v
ed through me. I wasn't Wolfless
y chased by confusion. *The
Aries said, her tone less certain now. *"It feels... blocked. Like there's a wal
I had a wolf, but a useless one. To the pack,
*"Don't get all gloomy again. The point is, you're not alone anymore. And I can
e. We had a secret. A dangerous one. If the Alpha found out I had a wolf I coul
* I told her, my mind racing. *
*"But you have to promise me we'll figure out what's wrong. I have n
nts died, I felt a flicker of real hope. I had
ard bed, the foul air, and the general injustice of our situation. H
at my prison cell. My purpose was clear now. I had to survive.
ur Mate! We need to find our Fated Mate! He'll be able to help us! What
esmond was a fre
sharp. *And besides, what Fated Mate would want an Omega? A
gh me, a feeling of being held and comforted from the inside out. It was her. In the suffocating darkn
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