Ava
he whispered.
She could feel his warm breath against her ear, and now that he wasn’t growling, his voice washed over her like a balm. Though she wasn’t looking up at him, she heard his deep breaths, as if he was taking her scent in. Her heart beat a little louder. When wolves went on a hunt, once they caught their prey’s scent, there was nowhere it could run that they wouldn’t catch it.
“Do you know why this place is named after the Phoenix? Because it’s designed to break us, burn us down until there’s nothing left. But you, little human, you’ll never rise from the ashes,” he said.
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