e

tall, my heart feeling like a cold stone in my chest, whi

face red with anger. "You don'

forcer, Kael, scramble away in

aura thick and heavy, trying to push me down. Usu

dn't work on me. It felt like a

without his title. The pack members around us ga

u'll be burying more than just memorie

" he growled. He stepped into my sp

tense. "And don't you dare use

sing in my own chest, but it wasn't anger. It w

a hybrid, but a fast, living rhythm. It hurt. It felt

opped to a whisper. He looked at my bone mask,

ow you? Why does the air

trembling, and tried to

oice was a low rasp, a

didn't

l the mountain air and pine on his skin. "Tell me who you

y and sharp. I felt the vampire magic take over, trying to protect

e. I grabbed Theron by the throat and

force, a loud snap echoing

his hands cla

th was unnatural. He stopped fighti

lowing, undead crimson, the color of fresh blood and dark magic. The

full of five years of misery. He looked at me with so much hop

t really you?

ame for a girl who was soft and break

ter, and I felt the coldness of my

ice-cold, the breath of a predator. "She died in the mud wh

e, sliding down to the ground, gasping for air. He l

breaking. "I saw... I thought

cruel. "And stop looking for a girl who doesn'

remembe

un like a human or a wolf. I blurred into the forest, my hybrid sp

reaks of green and bro

ipped the mask off and threw it into the dirt. My hand

to violet, but the black veins of the curs

tomach as the pain of the curse burned th

op thinking about his face. He didn't look li

d on with a new mate. He looked like a

ered Elara's neck

bered was wrong. My heart hammered against my ribs. If the rejection was r

e flickering in the distance. I had come for revenge. I had co

puzzle with missing pieces. Someone had

bone felt cold against my skin. I had two

e real enemy was, or I could spend th

y the tree in the distance. He was a small shape against the mas

oked

er in me felt a tiny, flickering spark of the girl I used to be

d. I wouldn't let her win. The girl was

revenge, even if