rus'

a traitor's daughter? And ev

ainty but Elder Reeves juts a chin out. H

Other packs are beginning to give us the side

m!!!". I

Eyebrows are being rai

ey'll go back with them intact". I push up from my seat. I'm done here. "I will not have this conversation again, elders. I'll do something abo

I hadn't been able to sleep. Finally, I had drifted off into a mockery of a nap and awoken an hour later in

say to Liam. "I need to have a word with him a

, Al

m to show me what they've got. The recruitments are coming. Tell Rio that". I say, referring to the master tr

a competent salutary and Monro has learned a lot

me before the

him halt in his steps

and fix Liam with a

going to do? A

r name and the link tugs in me

know you will". I turn to g

on, the Tower Prison that stands far against the horizon.

••••

I know she must have heard me, or rather felt me because she's standing at

reathlessly as I come t

Two long and equally thick iron shackles extend from the back of the room all the way to the bed such that the prisoner who'd be cuffed on both wris

as also come undone and I see that it's long, extending to the middle of her back in rich volumes. Even with her makeup half go

….". Tears well up in her ey

laborated with a

to their defense. "There was a child involv

enses Lena committed? Do you know how many lives she cost? One ch

. She's quiet and I can see her thoughts whirring. It is probably the bond, but I know what she is feeling. Regret. She shouldn't have been born. The welled up tears in her eyes fall down her cheeks and my arm twitches as it subc

ks. "Punish me. Only me. They helped Lena because of me, it

ed. With them. They are sen

anding. A choked sob makes it way out of her throat a

azarus. Pl

breath is coming out in hiccups and as much as something in me breaks t

you in the name of the moon goddess.

that, haven't you? You must flatter yourself so fuckin

lish in her pain. Oh how twisted the situ

our parents for your fate". I turn to go, then halt. "And one more thin

absolute defeat. That's the last image of her I see befo