rozen, still not belie

en noticed I was in the room, too

good." Zara kept moaning

whole house c

my direction and smir

!" I s

away from Zara, stari

an explain," he said in a rush as

at my stepsister, who still had that smug s

huh," I said,

, please," Lucas said a

d my neck didn't break. "Explain what, Lucas? Ex

" Lucas stammered,

, poor Ravenna," she mocked, stepping toward Lucas. "Did you really think anyone c

voice but I won't c

?" I asked, turning to Lucas, who was

s frowned in confu

t Zara, her smug

brat. You'd really stoop this low just to mess with me?

dded with a har

eaking me. I was never coming ba

omewhere pulling the strings as we speak? Ar

e the sting of her slap hit my cheek, followed by a

" I heard Lucas shout

I finally have he

oday, damn the consequenc

rcefully and she let

en without my wolf. I had t

h and knew ho

he wall, satisfied at t

sister?" I taunted, watching the blood trickle down

s definit

ing to peel me off Zar

on her face, spl

another one when som

here he was-the A

let him, because all the fig

I tried

, his voice harsh

la-and I looked away fro

leeding daughter, and she rais

in her eyes, but now th

e scare

eeding Zara, to my father, and they had t

me. Now the

ng her daughter tightly, that same hateful look

foreign, even to me. "Weak wouldn't

r the first time, shock and mo

his until my father spoke. "Not

fixing my gaze

hed," I heard the an

." Came my fat

the punishment was I would tak

ishment, Lila," he declared. "Whatever jud

ok up to see the sm

ucas and walked up to me. I still

ce. And I knew whatever was coming wo

s and all I could see i

really going

hereby banish you. You are to leave this pack and this forest, never to return.

rang, and the pain in m

o, I can't

to me," I said, m

eave immediately. And do not take anything with you.

This can't b

I turned

he said, turning away fro

t the man I had grown to

k. If this was my last moment with th

I replied, my

d walked out-out of the room, out

n breaking me, in stripping away every

ept walking, too nu

. Now an exile

ked, not knowing where I wa

king me to the bone, draining what little stren

the border between my former

re that I

tears flow, sobbing until there was

ost eve

e sky, each rumble vibra

y illuminating the world in

ace, lost in my sorrows,

lt of lightning tore through the sky, striking me