y
polished marble outside the Luna's Suite. I sho
room, my adoptive mother, High Luna Josephine, lay pale and frail against the pillows. Standing over her was the lreamed, lung
e polished oak floor. The moment the black liquid touched the wood
k. "Miss Ivy! What are you doin
rning floor. If Josephine had swallowed that, it would have permanently
abbed a pair of heavy shears from t
ephine whispered, her voice
shears into her luxurious velvet quilt. I ripped the
ed, covering
loated with Luna blood. These parasites had been slowly draining Josephine, injecting micro-doses of silver toxin
ast dregs of the liquid silver directly onto the nest of parasites
my voice cold and authoritative. "Bury them deep under
nd took Josephine's freezing hands. Tears welled in he
e my past life: Jackie, a terrified wolfless woman, had stolen me as an infant to replace her own stillborn, hiring Rogues to slaughter my true parents-Northe
hine who had brought me back from the brink of d
ed at the dead leeches. The submission that had clouded her eyes for m
I asked suddenly,
noon off," Josephine rep
ding. In my past life, shortly after Josephine's death, Falon's bloated body was
ackie bought her, and now Jackie will dispose of her. Mother, you have to
er grip on my hands tighte
ip, casting long, bloody shadows across the estate. The
Tonight, Alpha Derrick Mason and his wife were arriving for a gr
a of mating a "wolfless" girl like me. Tonight, he and my malicious half-sister, Denisse, would execute their trap. They planned to pump wolfsbane gas into my room, drag my unconscious body out
e, that night
line of the pear blossom birthmark on my forehead. Let them c
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