oe

as a freezing

the faint, suffocatin

, and my skin felt as if it were con

the dark corners of my mind, wh

izing headache came and went in wa

heavy iron doo

t through the darkness,

n, holding a

Leo, trailed behind her

tal bowl onto t

hit me i

it was turning green

e damp stone wall,

of an Omega?" I asked, my voice hoarse bu

uth and let out a

still the mighty Luna?" sh

ng but an empty joke

d the bowl of spoiled meat, s

eeth and let out a

ed, the words clearly not his own, but

t. My eyes were f

ollarbone was a glowi

cient crescent wolf totem

ening ceremony. I had traced those same crescent lines on my mother's necklace a thousand times as a child, pressing my small fingers in

c, flooded my veins, giving m

ropes binding my wris

ts took over as I tac

inum chain and rip

ly grazed her skin, leavi

kward against the wall and let ou

rying to kill m

he threw his head back, releasi

footsteps thundered

ushed into the dunge

loor, a tiny drop o

unleashed his ter

om became so heavy my

slapped me across the

crashed onto the cold floor, righ

d my mouth as warm blo

Hunter, burying he

that felt like a sticky film in the air, deliberat

ring her some food,

tried to choke me for my ne

mouth and clutched the Mo

er. "Look at the back! It has the Silver Moon tot

eeting instant, his eyes flickered toward the totem, and I saw something shift in his

d with a sudden s

and looked up at Hunter

have it," Ivy whispered, wiping a fake

noose, and the crack in his expression sealed shut. Hunter's eyes

to me, and his eyes we

e," he growled, s

brought his heavy leat

is heel int

retraction, but Ivy's scent thickened at once-a cloying, desperate sweetness

bones in my hand grinding

ding fingers open and sna

tly fastened the necklac

s irises seeming to recede, consumed by a

not seeing your true, vile nature b

arms, treating her like

" he ordered the g

d shut, plunging me back i

throbbed with a

s way past my teeth, splattering onto the stone. Where it landed, the damp floor se

urred into d

cried out through a broken, empty Mind-Li

tomb, I would make every single one of them pay. I did not yet know that my vengeance would only come at the cost of my life-or that t