Ashley
The next and final meeting with the representatives came all too soon. I still didn't feel ready for it, but it was necessary if I really wanted to be with Zane without any objections from the Lycan Tribe.
An odd tension still hung in the air, which we owed to the fresh death that occurred right in that very room.
Jacinta, who now sat in the chair belonging to her father, went straight for the bull’s horns. “We got reports that you were attacked at night.”
Hands on my neck, choking me to death…The memory gripped me like a vise, sucking the strength out of my bones. Pulling me lower and lower into an abyss…
“Yes, I was,” I replied simply, curling my hands into fists so that no one could see how terribly my fingers trembled.
“And where is that person now?”
“Dead.”
She lifted a brow, looking a little surprised to hear that. “By your hands?”
“You make it sound like I wasn't merely trying to defend myself. If I didn't stop him, I would have died,” I said gently, wishing that Zane w
