ped across the skin of my wrists,

e gave me a hard s

lp glancing back. "I'm not going to run.

he words left my

en replaced by Ryan Lambert, someone whom I had

haps he might

lightly

ght," I said, raising my h

already rubbed

a little? I won't run, and I w

little, my wounds wouldn't have been

ced down at my wri

overhearing, so I dropped my voice. "You just n

it." He said, his

ld animals three years ago? Everyone else was running away. I was the o

be grateful to you for the rest of my life over that, do you? You saved me once

stun

ut a scorn

hoved me onto the

m the pack, and the trees aroun

h the stench of rotti

n't the road to the border. Where d

e ans

olled into a de

s the ground, and the tree trunks

n land, the territ

rists clattered wildly against the woode

came to

the door of the cart and d

wn from his h

ed a brand-new silver

insignia of

of years spent grinding away co

asking, "Elena

ered across his eyes. "Ms. Elena Mills understands reward and punishment

o you traded my lif

e one who had been insulted. "You're not the future Luna anymore. Someon

run cold. "I s

come back for me. You insisted on playing the hero. And now you're using that to gui

at the chain

my odds of survival

or the fact that I truly did save you

n his face. "Haven't you insisted that you have a wo

ou afraid that one day, I'

lau

worthless waste who can't even turn into wolf form like you ever make it back? Even if you some

y, watching them disappear in

t the identity of the future Luna, everyth

ept through

came from t

saw were pairs of green ey

round the valley, closing

th of chain trailing on the ground,

s fangs, saliva dripping fr

lunged