“He would cut into me, sometimes small cuts and other times carving chunks of flesh,” I croak, turning my face into Thorne’s chest. “I didn’t have the strength or ability to fight after they drugged me and took too much blood. All I could do was lay there, paralyzed.”Thorne’s arms tighten around me
Aurora’s POVSomething warm and hard moves beneath me, pulling me from the depths of sleep.It moves again, and I open my eyes. The first thing I see is a bare chest, and my body moves before I can think. I scream, throwing myself back and off the bed. I hit the floor, crawling backwards without a t
“I’ll take you somewhere safe and quiet,” I say again, slowly and gently wrapping my arms around the wolf. I move slowly enough that she can resist if she wants to, but she doesn’t. She sinks into my arms.Anders opens the door for me, staying where he is as I carry her out of the room. I ignore eve
Thorne’s POV“Woah!” Anders jumps back as Aurora’s teeth snap just inches from his fingers. Her wolf body hasn’t receded, even after several hours. She hasn’t shown any sign of shifting back to her human form, and even when we ask her to, she doesn’t respond in any way.She just stares and snaps at
“Alpha, which way?” One of my gammas asks, coming to my side.“Down,” I growl, searching the room. “There has to be a basement or prison or something down there because that’s where Aurora’s scent is coming from.”The wolves around me nod and fan out. I step over fallen Dark Knight members and take
Thorne’s POVI hold a hand up, closing it in a fist to signal my men to stop as we hid in the tree line just outside of the Dark Knight Pack’s temporary pack house. The area is quiet, almost too quiet, as I let my senses expand.They’ve hidden themselves deep in the Lycan neutral territory, which sh