me was starting to make a presence

ing on with me but all I

ter with desperate strokes. And f

The current still had me, slamming me agai

rom my lungs. My ribs screa

ad-a branch hanging

groaned, reaching with a

around it. The bra

damn it

h

nt pure torture, until I could grab the mudd

ength and collapsed face-first onto the sh

, I just lay ther

spered hoarsely to

. But I had survived the

ng river. Every step burned as I stagger

wrapping my arms around myself. The wet clothes clun

Ice was gone. The one thing I'd bought with my own money. The on

ly, my voice break

took three steps

n

instinct I had

wasn

slowly, I t

d in the trees. One by one. Su

throat. "No... no, this

hat would my father's guards seem tame. These wolves

rough the night-

d of

surr

et easier, can it?" I

en, one by one, figures s

n't wolve

s. Tattoos covered their arms. Their eyes gleamed in th

They wer

ly whose territo

ue Alpha. That disgrace. Stay away from Aiden

and I collapsed o

llen leaves. Even injured and exhausted, I could fee

s an

. The Alpha of the

something other than lie there like prey.

who ar

own at me with eyes that gleamed in the dar

e, and I got my firs

ir. A face that would've been handsome

nderneath, biker gloves covering his

g me like I was a puzzle he

murmured, his voic

line was wearing off, and wit

thought before

of the frying pa

ted, and blackness

worse problem: I landed in my father's enemy's territor

nce more when all I ju