EI'S

there wa

t he had never loved me even for a secon

urred my vis

s wrapped around my waist,

d smell him, even thou

that if I got to look him in the eye right now, I

nst his hold. In response, Brandon covered

e garden – back to where

olfsbane. There was a murderous glint

ell. Look who

down to my knees,

ulders trembled with the effort it

troll in the gardens," she mused, lowering down to the ground

right here, right now. But maybe this is the moon goddess's wi

e ran her fingers along the curve of

grip. All I could do was watch helplessly as Freida pulled th

O

was going to die right now. It felt wrong, like I wa

ene out of a horror movie. This

out for help. There was

s coming

s all

on the back of my neck a

ounds. My eyes twitched with fear

er," she said, right as the wolfsba

nd unlike anything I had ever experienced. Within seco

d in a room full of fire

have been an hour. But by the time Brandon le

pty as I crashe

e

*

ringing me in contact with a pair of haunting black eyes. They seemed endless, like staring into a dar

ared into her eyes, the more I felt like I knew her. There was this otherworldly sense of recog

unshed tears. Mostly, I was heartbroken, overwhelmed by the dept

was all a bad dream. U

dered by my sis

all was how I never

The next moment, he was holding me down with an alien cruelty,

ellbent to kill me?

way from my eyes, holding me with

n goddess," I wept. "I don

f a great life. I am sorry Alexei but this is how it ends for some

to avenge my father's death. I want a chance to make my so-called family pay for killing him. I wish above all to prot

at her feet, desp

d look at her. She was smiling and staring at me with fondness

e reached out and

*

sense of fear, I jerked upwards, hellbent to hide

hat I was no longer in the garden. I actua

y throat, waiting to feel t

ever

at came was a lou

da came racing in. She was in her night dres

huge grin o

moment, I wondered if I had imagined everyth

taking me by surprise. "You should get ready. Father is already

ssed, holdin

his was possible. There was no way the mo

ut the important announcement tod

g everything in my power to hide the d

is heir today. I can't belie

sed to breaking the rules and getting away with it, but not

d out of my room, closi

ed for the calendar on my dres

lled back three mo

anted me a second chance to live and exert rev

l beg

d hard