Ruelle: Marked to Burn

le's

like a thunderbolt, I could se

ck, and then a loud s

gh the trees. I tasted someth

he dirt penetrated my fingernails wh

napping like twigs. My skin tore open as it gav

first shi

s bea

e into sight, and she was beautiful.

tly-for a moment. Then, eve

t my nose-It was metallic, and

ify the scent-it was

aring picked up

me, his eyes widened, and his chest moving fa

he screamed, but it on

h a cracked voice, getting

he shoved me into the thick bus

r with masks covering their faces.

ight-fast, too fast. No wolf c

me back to life, as I watched ho

ollapsed on the floor with

n the dang

top to thin

e, thorns ripped through my skin. I kep

as she begged me to turn back, and

oung, a

ng in the pack. The place wher

ething straight ou

re--Alpha Harold, my mum

red with blood, th

d, my knees hitting t

eyes, something ca

beneath my mo

nd it looked like a sigi

ar it calling to me. Something inside me re

uld hear a voice whisp

la

completely fine, and the next, I cou

wrist. It looked like a twisted mark of

g to my skin and s

BEGINNING A

in my ears but it

asp

I asked in a low v

My wolf picked up on a sound, an

them--one of the

hing me with no movement. Ju

't he at

ncts kicked in. I turned arou

ing sound behind me, and I was quick to duck

wait a second before

after me. I don't t

ened tonight

*********

nst my rib cage. The darkness was closing in around me, and I c

for any reason. I was sc

etely out of sight. I ran to it, as I crawled inside. The ca

und as my body shook w

dead family flashed in my eyes,

were

n my wrist. It seemed to be alive, a

r why my pack was wiped out, b

ld end up like my family-dead. I c

s scanned the cave. The cave goes deep, and

am and waterfall inside t

to the stream to drink from it. When I be

recognize the person staring at me. My features had changed. M

een glowing, but for some reason,

aint sound that came from

t was pounding h

ey fou

alert as the sound grew louder. Just t

xperience. She regarded me with a piercing ga

, her voice low and gravel

voice caught

couldn't make out. Before I could ask who she was,