The Fated Series
She smiled at me, and the sight of it made my heart falter.
“Finally,” she whispered, though her lips never moved. Her voice was in my head, curling like smoke. “You’ve always been mine. You just didn’t know it yet.”
“No,” I whispered back. My hands shook at my sides. “You’re not me.”
“Oh, I am,” she purred, tilting her head. “I’m what you would be if you stopped holding back. If you stopped forgiving. If you stopped failing.”
Images flashed across the surface. Jalen’s betrayal. Chelsea’s smirk. Jack’s knife at my throat. The screams of Crescent wolves burning in their own homes.