Chapter Eleven

The arena stood dark and empty when we arrived, championship banners hanging limp in the storm. Zane picked the service door lock in seconds. We slipped inside, flashlights cutting through shadows that smelled of cold ice and old sweat.The rink itself was silent, the surface freshly Zambonied, gleaming under emergency lights. Zane led us straight to the penalty box.He knelt and pried up the bench seat with brute strength. Wood splintered. Beneath it was a metal trapdoor, chained and padlocked.I shifted my hand just enough for claws to slice through the lock like butter.Cold air breathed up from below.Stairs spiraled down into darkness.We descended single file, Darius bringing up the rear with two armed guards. The temperature rose as we went deeper, the air growing thick and humid. Fluorescent bulbs flickered overhead, casting sickly light on concrete walls covered in old graffiti and pack symbols.At the bottom stretched a long tunnel lined with chain link cages.Inside the cag

Chapter Twelve

The cages were not empty.I stood at the bottom of those concrete stairs with cold air pressing against my skin like a warning, and I counted them. Six cages, three on each side of the tunnel, stretching back into the flicker of dying fluorescent light. Most were empty. But in the very last one on the left, a figure sat hunched against the chain link, knees drawn to their chest, face buried in folded arms.Small. Thin. Still.My heart climbed into my throat.“Zane.” His name came out barely above a whisper.He was already moving. He reached the cage in four long strides, crouching in front of it, flashlight cutting through the shadows. I followed, Darius right behind me, his alpha aura so thick in the enclosed space it felt like breathing through wet cloth.The figure stirred at the sound of our footsteps.A girl.She couldn’t have been older than fourteen. Dark hair matted and tangled, bruising along one cheekbone, wrists wrapped in what looked like silver-threaded rope the kind used

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