AURORA“What did you say?”He left the comfort of the wall and walked over to me with slow defined steps. I gulped, hoping he wouldn’t do what he did to that iron table… to me. I was sure that table couldn’t be the same.‘For the record, you won’t be the same if he lashes out at us!’I was not going to take my word back but maybe I was breaking into his privacy… Fuck privacy! He kidnapped me and kept me in here like some sex slave. Yeah, speaking of that, mom and dad have raised treaties with numerous packs to ban owning sex slaves among Alphas and his aides.They’ve succeeded in many because packs want to be allied with Moonstone so they happily or diffidently accept these conditions to form the partnership. Silverclaw wasn’t one of them. It made me angry for a reason and it wasn’t just because of what he could be doing to them, but how many of them he would’ve fucked.“I don’t think it’ll be wise for me to repeat it.” I looked down at his released claws and shivered slightly when I r

KATRINAElder Sesan has been trying to wear ‘normal’ clothes for the past few years but he was never successful in pulling it off. His baggy trousers and long-sleeved brown shirt were just… a terrible combination. He had tied his beard and though he looked older, it was not as obvious as if you knew Penelope almost ten years ago.Penelope was a woman now. A full-grown woman. She had long wavy coal black hair and her extraordinary confidence had never wavered. From what I last remembered, she had a harder voice and always held her head upright.She wore a small black dress and tied a matching ribbon around her neck. They walked forward and Kane stood beside me, folding his hands and flexing those muscles.“I hope you’re the only ones here. You know I don’t approve of the others,” I said, expecting to see the rest jump out.Dan died a year ago, but Fraser and that prick, Madeline, were still alive—unfortunately. “Of cour

‘Oh, she’s sweet but a psycho, a little bit psycho, at night she’s screaming, I’m-ma-ma-ma out of my mind. Oh, she’s hot but a psycho…’‘Stop, you’re driving me insane with that song.’‘I thought you love that song.’‘Not if you keep singing it that way. You’re in my head, remember, and it’s been like an hour.’ ‘I sing it all the time. You’re just noticing because you’re bored and have nothing else to do.’I hissed. ‘Whatever.’The sun was preparing to set and the moon was warming up for duty as it was late evening now. I’ve been inside all day, it’s driving my insides as insane as Evolet’s singing voice made my ears squirm.‘Hey!’I mean, if it were Hilda in here, she’d find a book or two and wouldn’t mind as long as she was allowed to read. She doesn’t leave her room on most days in the packhouse—obviously when she isn’t in school. Dash would be able to cope if he had a computer with Internet access or a play

AURORAThis explained why Adrian agreed to let me accompany him to find the antidote. Because he knew how uncomfortable I would be and how comfortable it’d be for him. I couldn’t think of a worse punishment.Imagine me in a giant cage. I know that sounds nuts but imagine a 5 foot 6 inches living person in a silver birdcage. No one alive could imagine my degree of anger when I discovered that I would be transported like this. Like an animal. A freaking animal!‘But technically, you are…’‘A word from you and I’ll block you off for a week.’Evolet never took this threat seriously until I did it once, for two straight weeks—the worst time of my life but I had to teach her a lesson. I wonder how humans cope without these annoying and clear voices in their heads. It’s hard to imagine living without Evolet even though she’s an annoying prick.When times for directions arrived, I hesitated to guide them because I wanted to bar

AURORA My eyes were wide open yesterday but I barely remembered anything that happened. My memory was still fuzzy, even till this morning. The only voice, among hundreds, that I perceived was Adrian’s and there were so many unanswered questions churning in my healed stomach.I guess Adrian didn’t know I was a speedy healer because he looked so scared. I’ve never seen him that way before.Anytime I remembered my failed escape attempt, pricks would stab my stomach. But I should’ve known it was a failure from the start. No matter how big Penelope’s ‘army’ was, one of Adrian’s Sigmas was as good as five. Penelope… I wondered where she was. How could she just disappear? It didn’t make any sense. Was she able to escape, did someone take her away?All this thinking gave me a terrible headache but yesterday’s venture wasn’t a complete waste of time. Lizra informed me this morning that they gathered all the smokegeese and it would be enough for the presently sick wolves, and also for the prod