Marked From Birth
"They used her jealousy to get into my father's head, then they used his hatred to get to me. This wasn't just a switch at a wedding. This was a twenty-one-year-old trap."
Suddenly, a muffled scream echoed from the apothecary's room down the hall.
Audrey, Silas, and Marcus ran toward the sound. They burst into the small room where the herbs and tonics were prepared.
The head apothecary, an elderly wolf named Elian, was slumped over his desk. Standing over him was a young acolyte—a girl Audrey recognized as one of the new recruits from the refugee camps. The girl held a glass vial filled with a shimmering, violet liquid.