CHAPTER 7

Darius may have been playing a joke on me all along by giving me the impression that I had a chance to go, or perhaps something made him suspicious after all.

But now that Darius's hunter and the best pack nose, Nathan, is here, my life is gone. It would already be over even if it were another shifter.

Amanda, every shifter in this city is aware that you are mine. They respond to me. If you try to run away once again, someone will catch you and keep you until I get there. And if you're unlucky, they'll have the kind of time that makes you want to ask them to let you come back.

I can still hear Darius's whisper before he tied me to his wall for "safe-keeping." I will never forget it, even if I live to be a hundred years old.

At first, I didn't think he was real. But then I recalled how people had treated him as though he were a gift from God. Darius was always served best by it. No was always the response to his requests, but when do you need it? Of course, it will be there if you say