phin

d as Caleb escorted me from the freezing mud of the Wolf Ru

any personal touch, feeling more like an interrogation chamber. The air was suffocating, thick wit

the meager conten

's leftover?" Kaelen's baritone voice sliced through the silenc

den, heat-inducing herbs, a silver heart necklace engraved with the letter *A

dra. She had packed my ba

disgust. "You planned to drug me, force a Lycan heir to secure your power

hroat still raw from screaming in

ntly the glass on the table vibrated. "Your *Luna* title is nothing

There was no point in defending myself. In his eyes, I was already gui

my luxurious bedroom prison. I was a ghos

sleek landline phone on the nightstand to cal

Curtis's voice crackled through

ng over my lashes. "But I still have the Bellbanks Unive

interrupted, her voice breaking. "The university revoked yo

spun. "Wh

lained bitterly. "They claimed you have a history of severe mental instability and f

alting the earth of my entire future. She had severed my only tie to th

of the massive bedroom felt li

om, my bare feet silent against the cold marble of the corridor. I di

staircase, staring down into th

mbling uncontrollably as I slowly descended the black marble steps.

final step a

stopped

fireplace, dressed in dark casu

ndin

ated an overwhelming, lethal power. His obsidian eyes were locked

nst the marble floor, the sound echoin

letting the sheer terror of his unmasked reality sink into my bones. The secret I though

n turned and walked away, his stri