ra'
pierced him right through his heart. His blood spilt fas
ist, then went numb. It hurt me to breathe. Iron reeked in my nostrils, an
tinued to ache with each failed attempt at movement in the metal
lf!" one of
kness to pierce the tree next to
the only ones here,"
ver shot those arrows had not
r two and moved with the kind of confidence that can only be achieved when you know that you can kill anyone in
" one of the
from the dead body of the buyer to t
s scarier than an
er, grabbed his neck and snapped it in an instant. The second one tried to flee but died
corpses before
gged quietly,
ne looked
" he replied, "but I'm not
from the faint sound of blo
own first at the dead buyer, next at the trap attached to my ankle and lastly at m
he usual sne
dn't
even more t
ing at me like th
e wh
meone you wish y
change its expre
have an
eaking in a calm, controlled tone th
hink
ith such intensity that my vision went dark on the sides, and I made a soun
between clenched
ined th
n do
ha
ve to prove a
. The metal jaws had sunk deep into my ankle; blood was
ll hurt,
thing
omething close to pit
free. The pain that came with releasing the trap jaw
eding badly
en worse
ce. "As if it wer
way. "It i
hen he straightened. "The A
ement, he cut the
ame sounded familiar from tales
give any
touching you anymore
abused wri
ou're goin
d gestures morphed into something different. Each and every Alpha I had ever
you taking
my p
t belon
long anywhere
d what do you
a few moments b
ht? No
held out
go where you won't end up de
me. All I could think about was the coldness of Kaizen's eyes when he o
n at Ronan's
red," I
ld be," h
d been expectin
ld you s
ve been through." His hand was still outstretched.
him guide me towards my fate w
re held tight
e that night, I c
Every single step burned inside my wounded ankle but I refused
n pain,"
m f
re li
it s
ce. "You don't need to
kept
gry to devour me. Yet there was something in the quiet
old me we w
s scouts burst out of the trees running h
s voice dropping low
d immediatel
ossed into our borders less than an hour ago. They'r
od wen
turned sharpe
ore are coming down
the scout
. "They know she was t
zed tighter
now she's al
ammed again
ut the thought of him standing in the council chambers, wat
eacting for the first
th str
h recog
ith pu
eyond the woods
wolf ans
xpression
oser than w
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