The Lycan King's Defiant Surrogate
Or, What do you expect when you treat everyone around you like garbage?
Instead, I tell her, “We can argue about this later.”
“There won’t be a later!” Leah shouts.
Too loud. Far too loud.
Whatever had been looking for us in the hallway begins to pound on the door. That lock is flimsy, meant only to direct and deter the slaves. There’s no real threat in it. It’s not meant to keep out monsters.
The wood of the door begins to splinter. What surprises me, in my panic-addled brain, is how the door seems more likely to give before the lock. Perhaps it’s not such a flimsy lock as I previously thought.