~ TESS ~
I’m dreaming.
"I have to be dreaming," I think as I watch in horror while the red... no, yellow eyes of the beast narrow, its giant teeth coming right at me with hunger.
I scream—or try to—but there’s no sound. My arms are too heavy to lift, and my feet feel stuck to the floor. Lyra stands behind the couch, her face shifting into something animalistic.
I tear my gaze from her, focusing on the wolf that snarls and bares its teeth. Death is coming for me, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it. Terror seizes my chest, each heartbeat pounding like a drumbeat of doom. The enormous black beast charges at me, its teeth sharp and long, its claws like talons.
“I warned you,” my father taunts inside my head, slurring his words. “But you didn’t listen, did you? You never do. It’s going to eat you alive, little girl. Then it’s going to gnaw on your bones.”
I close my eyes and whimper, praying for a quick death. The beast slams into me, knocking me to the floor. My back hi
