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girl! We have to g

k at the older woman who has been serving

cking the door to my room that has been my cell for the past 8 years. A major upgrade

s the same night they discovered I

bag she had in her hand. "Come on get up! Don't just sit there. Get your shoes on girl!" She pauses her actions to give me a stern look. The lines

want to fill. King Orion protected this city. A deal the council made with him to keep you here in secret. Now I don't know if King Panja knows abo

t also a little excited at the prospect of actually getting out of here. Then the

ds were shaking until she gave them a little squeeze. "I'm coming with you. I would

her hands back on her hips. Her usual frown came back i

cerns, I am eagerly and just as excited. Thinking that this was just like an adventure in o

room. It's been 8 years in that room, and

ridor. "Shouldn't we be doing this at night?" I ask, thinking if we we

ing her steps, and turns to face me, her blue eyes soft "we have more chance of no one taking notice of you with the cover of the crowd. Just do as I

not knowing wh

th them. Until Gregorio came along. Gregorio had taken pity on me, it was he who suggested to my father, that I may need a woman to care for me. A man would not understand my needs and implored that it was unhe

r. This place was like a maze. My eyes darted everywhere, the walls were plain and made of a hard, smooth stone and I let my finger

s of men had caught her attention and a deep frown formed on her face. She turned and hastily shooed me

her features. "We have to keep moving. We need to get you out of h

g for me, but I didn't know for what. "Can they smell I'm a witch or do I smell like a human?" My cu

nce again, "we shifters have a sixth sense. The power you hold, your gifts, we can feel it if they are close enough to you. One of many reason

nd I could only hope he was still alive. Margarita and Gregorio had said they heard rumors he was captured alive by the King

nose twitched, scenting the air. "Wolve

mell. My father, Orion had always said bear shifters were nobler and born to rule and that wolves were soldiers, packs

and although he had no choice but to obey our father, Finn is a good person who loves me. That and books had taug

mewhere pulled me from my thoughts. My head began to buzz, an

one of your visions," she huffed gr

surroundings. If I tried to block them out pressure would build in my head until I passed out. So, I just let them take over. The

ith a white mark seated in the irises. One more flash had me gasping for breath as the vision of

he vision broke bringing

rgarita asked in a hus

o make sense of my vision, jarred by the black eyes that

e lives of non-shifters over 250 years ago. My mother was one of the last true witches, not just an herbalist or healer but she also had the gift o

o shake the memory fro

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reamed at my mother, who cowered in the corner of our stone ce

mercy on her. If not for me then for her. I beg you to spare her!” I could

as they knew I wouldn’t. I was born without a spirit anima

red windows. My mother taught me everything she could, not knowing when her last day would be. My father’s temper would flare and for whatever reason, he hated my mother

him and given him a false vision. He gripped my hair

pat at her. His eyes glowed with his beast but w

annot control what I see, I would never

r. I watched as he pounced on my mother’s frail body and hit her. Again, and again and again. Until her sobs stopped and s

my mother died. That night I held her bloodied head in my lap as I cried. That night the a

way. He didn’t look at me, he didn’t speak to me. I saw the shame in his eyes and as

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rriedly running over. My hand slipped from Margarita’s, and I couldn’t catch myself in time. My face whacked the floor as I

grabbed my wrist “Arrgghhh!” I cried i

ssessing my wrist. “I don’t think it is broken, but definitely

hough I could feel my

ce now.” She shook her head and tore a piece of cloth from

en pulled it away to inspect. Yep, I certainly had done a n

aking a grab for my elbow. “Almost there, Gregorio is waiting for us." There was panic

wl “I have her scent!” A man yelled out. He wasn’t

r steps, all but full-out running. We rounded a corner and could see the dim light indi

the exit that I knew was just ahead, just around the corner. I slammed into the back o

d whom they belonged to. Soldiers. Not guards from Andora or guards my father had posted. Thes

y, back. Her eyes flared with her beast when she turne

up my skirt and ran. I had no idea where I was going but I ran, ducking from corridor to corridor. I heard a roar and knew Margarita had shifted. I stopped, wan

re coming for me. I turned and fled. Terror gripped me like there was no tomorrow and my feet quickened. A

just one exit, one door. That’s all I needed. The barks became loude

, think Morgan, think! I chided myself. I took a deep breath and flew forward. If I just kept moving, I could get out. If I could just get ou

ly shit, I

corridor was an exit. I reached the heavy wooden barricade and pushed

ocked door. I wanted to sink - to give up. But that familia

e weak; she would have a plan and would fight to the

ar superior to mine and if the echoing sound was that loud to me, they would no doubt be able to hear it. I didn’t have a chance. They

hurried nails against the marble floor got cl

macking into a hard wall. I bounced back bracing my arms, ready for my ass to hit the ground when a pair of arms pulled me in tight, and quicker t

d, meeting his eyes. Black endless pools stared down at me. So deep and dark that I felt myself g

Finn sent me for you.” He whispered into the shell of my ear.

his finger to my lips again and

Trust me right now and you will see your brother again.” He lifted his he

that he was telling the truth and Finn really had sent him. My options were to either keep run