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 l

reamed, 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