nda'

f the Raiden compound, the guar

ered, his hand on my arm

g with fire pits and wolves in black leather, faces masked with cr

mson girl?" a breat

look

but there were too many around me, bodies closing in to form

the di

spat out, voice s

od wen

poked under the collar of m

fingers were on me everywhere, hard and cruel. Blind with tears, I

ripped

And I raised my g

ts, gold eyes boring holes through flesh and bone. Guar

parted, he

ermission," Colton snarled, voice low, ici

dropped to

lpha," one stu

mpty, but his fists were balled so hard

he snarled, still

e ans

"I asked," he snarled, "

an-" some

ho lay by the fire, his lip b

m," Colto

ent before he could roll away. They s

is pack to become in charge?" C

thought she was pr

ucan's nose echoed through the courty

er, coughing red

wled Colton, his face

e bre

as he thrashed there, blood soaking the eart

"The next time you shove the line this far, I won't be so polite. I might

ite face, his wide e

Colton t

ack in quiet watch. They didn't budge. They were not willi

gesture at the chin, Colton instruc

he did not make a sound. His pride would mend if he were smart. C

the sea, and Lucan was

oze, staring into his cold eyes and unreadable

rtatious glance at me before raising his eyes to meet mine.

oat was a battlefield o

guards. "Take her to

e out, moving

the wolves' insistent stare that hungered for me broken. I stumbled into

rashed shu

skin crawled where they touched me, and

chest and fell onto the co

r groan

oorway. He strode three long steps across

me," he

oul

prying it up. His touch was unex

udying my face like it held answers.

racked, hoarse an

e a sigh. "Because your father's a

t him. "Yo

ed into somethi

n't sold me. He'd sold me-to con

y chin. He paced the tiny ro

he bellowed boastfully. "A sex sla

stung more t

voice cold and deadly. "I don't swallow

y face, smolderi

on continued. "And the Raiden

doorway, and slowly looke

id. His voice was almost soft. "Yo

e, and I got even more

rash, the doo

hy was this the way my life had to be? My father wa

nt that Colton was th