nda'
I stumbled, half-falling out of the reach of the tray, silver
g voice thundered down the hallway, cold and un
r plates, unseen and unheard. No one got up
had been knocked over, the scalding cheek where my father's hand had burned me. The sha
so mad that he yanked his chair ba
eavy oak doors crashing closed behind me. The laughte
en wind tearing through boarded-up windows nipped at my flesh. I shivered, placing fr
all an ho
y door, their faces blan
wn the corridors, shadows deeper and thicker than they ever had been.
over his chest and his eyes burning with some kind of mal
arled, his voice low but lethal. "A
caught.
s snarl rattl
the urge to apologize. It
t, you're leaving the Crimson Pack. You'll go to R
d at first. They couldn't
. "Selling. To King Colton. It's bl
away. "No
eered. "You are nothing but a liability. Rai
opped to my knees. "I'
e told, " he told the
t made no difference. The last thing I remembered while being pulled out into the chillrcers shoved me into the back of a black SUV
that settled in my stomach. I knew what Raiden's Pack was. Everybody did. Those wolves who were stupid enough to venture over ontoand handed over to h
eched to a stop. One of the thugs pulled me out and pushe
ather and steel. Raiders of Raiden's Pack had look
ger than the rest. He was br
uldn't be...
at cut through me like a knife. When our eyes clashed, the world
s the clearing, deep and resol
the words out past
ead the words aloud. "By Crimson Pack's Alpha's power, you
laughing. Some smiled. My fists thudded aga
o that," I s
can," he said, grinning,
t even to the outside edges
mth of his skin and the pure stre
" he snarled, voi
is touch was fire against my ice skin. I felt agon
t flared at the
ed, look
rowing in strength,
d. The wolves on all side
s branded," Colton told me
exchanged ne
efective," one o
ow and menacing. "Defec
now, a thrum through my bones, an older t
gainst mine, his mo
ay you are," he spoke proudly. "I mi
ut it wasn't
s hands. Two guards clos
ompound. Lock her
n stood there, a cr
hey dragged me off, "don't ev
oldly and s
catch wh