Prologue / Chapter 1

Playlist:::::

Lofticries - Purity Ring

Moments Passed - Dermot Kennedy

To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra

Lay it on Me - (acoustic) ELI

Shelter - Birdy

Words - Skylar Grey

She’ll Suite - Chad Valley

Get you to the Moon - Kina feat. Snow

Aftermath - Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

The Funeral - Band of Horses

When the Party’s Over - Andrew Igbokidi

So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth (art mix) - Grimes

Save Tonight - Zayde Wolf

Neon Lights - Pim Stones

I Ran - (epic trailer version) Hidden Citizens

Eden - Hooverphonic

Deep - Peter Sandberg

This Years Love - David Gray

Waking Up - MJ Cole & Freya Ridings

Come Fly with Me - Ruelle

Black out Days - Phantogram

Me - The 1975

Crave You - Flight Facilities

Return to Innocence - Enigma

Letters From the Sky - Civil Twilight

Human - Civil Twilight

Outside the Realm - Big Giant Circles

Toxic - 2WEI

Father’s Son - Celeste

All The Things She Said - Tatu

Livewire - Oh Wonder

Your Soul -Rhodes

Wash - Bon Iver

Prologue

Emily’s wrists ached as the rope cut into them. They were probably bleeding now, even though she had been trying not to struggle too much.. just to avoid that very thing. But when you were tied and trussed up the way she was, not struggling was a difficult task.

She was sore everywhere, and freezing. The cold winter night air cut straight through to her bones. The pillar she was tied to stood at one end of a round dirt lot where they had training. But this was no exercise… this was punishment.

She supposed she deserved it.. at least to some extent. She did do what she had been accused of. She had killed someone. And who had tied her here on this wooden scratchy post… to be mocked and made a spectacle of? None other than her husband, Nicklaus.

Emily looked around at the faces that had come to watch her punishment. The most frightened faces of them all were those of her two children, Luca and Olivia. At only seven and four, respectively, she had begged Nick to take the children away, and not let them watch this. But Nick being the alpha wolf that he was, had refused.

For her punishment, however unjustifiable it was, she was to receive thirty lashes. Thirty lashes for killing someone… and that had been, in her eyes, very justified.

Susan was her husbands sister, her sister in law, family. But she herself had committed the ultimate sin.

Chapter 1

Emily.

They had put her in the dungeon. As werewolves, this was a common occurrence in their world, however, for a Luna like Emily, it was not. She sat there on the cold hard floor, thinking about everything and wondering what would happen next.

She was sore and cold. Her body was fighting to recover and heal itself. Emily thought about what had brought her to this point.

Susan had been married to a man named Caron, who was the Alpha of another pack. They had a son named Andrew, he was close in age to her son, and the two of them were close. Recently, or the story that Nick had been told, Susan discovered her husband was having an affair, and she and her son were made to leave the pack. That’s why she had come here.

However, Emily was very suspicious about this. She knew that Susan had been unfaithful in the past, and wondered if it perhaps was her who had the affair and not Caron. Emily had found out years ago that Susan was secretly seeing another man, and had promised she wouldn’t say anything. It had been the night before Susan and Caron’s wedding when Emily walked in on them. However she told Susan she would keep her secret if the man left the pack, which he did. He ended up getting killed though, and because of this.. Susan hated Emily.

That had been ten long years ago. And now.. now she was here.. stuck in this cell. There was to be a trial, people would come from far and wide to watch it. A Luna on trial for murder, well that would be a sight to see.

But Emily didn’t care. She would do it again if given half the chance, and she would tell everyone that. They would all know what kind of person Susan really was when she got finished.

Emily stretched out her legs, the pain subsiding a little. As a werewolf, she healed faster than the normal person.. however… the cells inside the dungeon were made with limestone. And limestone was a mineral that blocked the werewolves healing ability… which was exactly why the dungeon was built with it.

Still, Emily was very young. Werewolves married younger than most humans, also they didn’t age in the same manner as they did. Instead of aging every year, it took werewolves around twice that long. So they only really aged every two years. She had been 17 when she and Nick tied the knot. In human years she would’ve been 27 however because they aged so slowly as a wolf she was barely 21 years old.

So her young age plus the fact that she was a Luna which added to her strength and abilities, she should be healing at a great speed. Still, she had endured hours and hours being tied to that pole, and the lashes on her back had cut deep into her skin.

Lashing a person for their sins seemed barbaric to her. She had long hated the ritual. But werewolf culture called for it, and changing the laws that had been in effect for centuries was not an easy task. The stipulation that the pack’s beta was the executioner of said lashes was another outdated occurrence in her opinion. However, she thought Felix was probably happy he finally got to inflict harm on her.