登入A scream was working up my throat. I fought against Erina as she held me tightly, trying to drag me away from where I stood. “Let me go!” I snapped. Erina did not listen to me. Instead her arms tightened around me even further, and she started to carry me away. “Elias is going to skin me alive if anything happens to you. You heard him. My life depends on your survival. We have to get you to safety,” she insisted. I did not want to leave. “No. Let me go. I have to help him.”Carlos stepped before me, barring me from seeing Elias and Terrence. “The fight is going to be bloody. You do not want to see it.”I held his gaze and responded as calmly as I could manage. “I do.” He still looked like he wanted to refuse me, but the fact that he was not dragging me away like Erina was made me hopeful. “Please, Carlos. Please. I need to stay close. I know he does not need any help, but I… I need to stay close. We don't know what might happen. What if he needs my help and I am sequestered far
I had no idea why, or where the feeling was stemming from, but I had a very ominous feeling. It felt as though something bad was about to happen, and my body was trying to warn me about it. Or maybe my body was trying to brace for whatever it was. Whatever the case was, all I knew was that there was this cloud of premonition hanging over my head and it made me so uneasy. I hated how it crawled under my skin and settled there, making a home in my body.I tried not to think about it, but that was impossible. But then I tried to think about it, and I could not make any sense of it. “Could it be because of Terrence? I mean, you are planning this huge bait and ruse to draw him out from wherever he is without telling any of us what it is. Could it be that you are excited and mislabeling the feeling?’ Erina asked. A slight frown settled on my face as I stared at her. “I know what it feels like to be excited, Erina. This is different.”She shrugged. “Then maybe you are overthinking it.”B
IN ANOTHER HIDDEN FACILITY…“I want her back. Isadora. I cannot believe how well she survived. I mean, I always knew she lived, and that she was a wolf but seeing her in the flesh made me realise that she was so… fuck it. I need her here with me. I need to open her up and see what is different about her. Why was she so successful where so many others have failed? Was there something I was missing? What did I do that was different? I need to know. I have to know.”The scientist has a crazed expression on his face. He was pacing the length of his office, his hand running back and forth on his hair as he rambled on. He had not realised how much he needed isadora until he escaped from the facility. But ever since he got to his backup laboratory, she was all he could think about. In his head, he kept replaying the way her wolf had felt to him. He was so strongly attuned to her and he had seen clips of her fighting back during the first raid where Terrence had the good sense to blow up th
“The council are requesting a meeting with you,” Carlos stated as he leaned against the doorway. Elias did not look up from the document he was highlighting, and I dropped my highlighter to stare at him. “You cannot avoid them forever, Elias,” I stated. He sighed and looked up. “I am not avoiding them. I just do not have the time and energy to entertain their bickering right now,” he responded sharply.Carlos crossed his arms over his chest. “Well, that is too bad for you, because they are waiting in the courtyard right now. They refused to enter and wait for you in the meeting room, but they also vowed that they would not be leaving until you see them.”“They can remain there for as long as they like,” Elias insisted stubbornly before turning back to his document. I snatched the paper away from him. “Don’t be a grumpy ass and let's just go and see them,” I insisted. Elias ran a hand through his hair. “Fine. But if they make one single comment about you and that facility, I will t
.Other people’s actions do not define who I am. My father might have expected me to die on that man’s experimental table, or even in that forsaken cage, but I survived. I made it out and now I have a new family. People who loved me without caring that I was a lab rat, people who would never give up on me. And having that reassurance was enough to make me slowly start to step out of my head. The past would always remain in the past. I had no control over it, but I have full control over my present and my future, and I refuse to let the fact that I used to be human shatter the most important thing about me. The one feature I loved the best. My wolf form.No matter who gave it to me, it was mine now. And I would claim it proudly. When the door opened, informing me of Elias’s arrival, my heart leapt into my throat. I was happy to see him after being so ashamed for so long, and I hoped that he would not be mad at me. He walked into the living room to find me standing, and for a momen
The room was silent enough that if a pin dropped, we all would hear it. Men who have been under my rule for decades stared back at me, their gazes alternating between curiosity to indifference, to straight up boredom. Of course I noted the ones who looked attentive and ready to listen to what I had to say. “A few months ago, I got wind of an illegal operation going on in several packs. The information I had then was scant, and I had nothing to work with. But when Ethan died it came to my attention that what I have been looking for, the organisation I wanted to learn more about, has been operating right under my nose.”I paused and looked around. They all seemed to be holding their breaths, but I did not let the silence drag out for too long before I continued. “I am sure you guys already know how the rest of the story went. We found all the surviving victims, and we found out that the bastards behind all of these were not just running a kidnapping operation. They were experimentin
Ashton left with the children shortly after that, and it wasn’t until Elias walked back into the room that I suddenly found it hard to speak.I hadn’t cried since the incident, mostly because I didn’t think there was anything to cry about, but after seeing that boy, after holding him in my hands, t
Elias made good on his words over the next few days.We practically existed in our own little bubble for five whole days, and each day was a thousand times better than the last.I feared that each day would be the last, that someone would interrupt our solemn bubble, but it never came, and I’d fina
I wasn’t sure how long I was out.As I slowly came to, I couldn’t help but feel a wave of irritation at the crickets chirping outside and the discomfort of the couch.It took me a long minute to realize that I couldn’t hear any crickets, and I wasn’t on an uncomfortable couch.My eyes flew open imm
The people stared as we drove past. They didn’t even try to hide the fact that they were.I didn’t want to step out of the car at all, and I honestly wouldn’t have if it weren’t for Carlos practically dragging me out of the car.“Carlos,” I hissed as we walked through the throngs of soldiers. “I wa







