All Chapters of Claws on Ice: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Trixie's POV“Hey! Over here! There’s one left in the crash!”The shouting felt like a punch to my ears as I opened my eyes, but the world was just a spinning vortex of black and orange.My head banged with a rhythm so violent I thought my skull might actually crack open.Coughing through a cloud of smoke, I dragged my body forward, scraping my knees and hands as I struggled to crawl out of the wreckage of the car.The second I tumbled out onto the grass and collapsed, the nightmare hit me.There was chaos. People were screaming everywhere, the air was filled with smoke and ash.Fire was eating into the night, but it wasn’t just the car that was burning. Houses were on fire, not just any houses, our pack’s houses.The people who had pulled me away from the carriage were crowding over me, “Are you okay? Hey, look at me, can you hear me?”I couldn't answer. I didn't care about the scrapes on my arms or the way my body felt like it had been run over by a semi-truck. I pushed them away, s

Trixie's POVEveryone knows…The words looped in my head.We weren't safe, the border hadn't protected us, and our new names were nothing but thin paper shields.That night at dinner, I sat at the table, my spoon dragging through the watery soup Mom had made, my eyes darting nervously between my parents and Yasmine.I kept waiting for the hammer to fall, entirely sure Yasmine had run straight to them.But as Dad quietly chewed his bread and Mom muttered something about the rising cost of utilities, it became obvious that Yasmine hadn't said a word.She sat across from me, gracefully cutting her food, completely ignoring my existence.“You're not eating, Trixie,” Dad murmured, not even looking up from his plate.“I'm not hungry,” I said flatly, “Good, saves on the grocery bill,” Yasmine chimed in smoothly, a fake, sweet smile on her face that made me want to lean across the table and choke her.Despite Harlan’s words, and Yasmine’s threat, it didn’t stop me… If anything, the terror fue