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st track

became indistinguishable. The only constan

just enough that my toes barely grazed the cold stone floor, forcing my weight upward into my shoulders in a slow, relentless torment that never fully

hting the chains

h. I wasn't

made contact with my skin at the end of the chase, the force of it had detonated through me li

e, there w

y. He had circled me, chanting in a language that made my wolf thrash in blind panic behind my ribs. Then he drove a dagge

ad been ex

second time, I

Chained

ing attempts to find the part of me that could shift, that cou

time,

shimmered faintly when I strained against them. Suppressing not just my strength but my wolf hers

etely, devastatingly

ock r

heard two sets of footst

ead expressions. Alpha, beta, omega, the particular signature of each rank as distinct as a fingerprint. But his was wrong. His

such creatures which Sebastian had corrupted with

e into my view, her voice without warmth. "An

ave time t

of it obscenely loud in the silence, and cold air hit every inch of me at once. I gasped. Tried to twist aw

them naked. Naked. Chained, shaking and w

body with enough force to steal every breath from my lungs. I cried out involuntarily, muscl

t mercy or acknowle

haking. Stripped of the last thing that h

n I felt the

my head

s sta

and beneath the skin of his neck and forearms dark veins were spreading like cracks

gry in a way that had nothing resembling admiration in it. H

reached

grazed my skin before m

r as the chains allowed, felt it graze my temple, and kicked out at hard, using every bit of strength that remained. She met the ground and when s

use silenced