Bride of the Human Alpha
Chained to that altar was my mother.
Isabella Methlock looked nothing like I remembered. Twenty-five years of captivity and magical exploitation had aged her terribly. Her hair, once dark like mine, was now pure white. Her face was gaunt, marked with scars from repeated blood-letting. Her body was skeletal, wasted by decades of being used as a magical battery.
But her eyes—her eyes still burned with fierce intelligence and unbroken will.
"Daren," she whispered, her voice cracked and raw. "You shouldn't have come. It's a trap."