The Luna Queen's Rebirth
I could hardly even breathe as my throat grew stiff and paralyzed just like the rest of me.
Stephanie crouched on the other side of the bars, her coat pooling around her, and watched me choke.
“I’m sorry it had to be this way. But I can’t have you talking,” she said. “Because I know you will, at some point; if not today, then tomorrow, or the next, or three months from now. You will. Unless I silence you first.”
My fingernails scratched against the floor.
“As for my dear stepdaughter,” Stephanie said, rising, “I’ll be seeing to her personally when the moment comes. I guess what they say is true: if you want something done right, do it yourself.”