le Phe

tting grain wafted from the tray, makin

udge up to Kacey's smug f

What's the matter, Danielle? Still pretending to be the high-and-mighty heiress? You're a con

ked up the bowl of rancid mush, and shoved it dir

out like a st

lamped my palm around her slender wrist and

her voice turning into

the concrete floor with a loud clang. The gray slop splattered

umbling against the wall. I grabbed a dry rag from the

ge. Then, without warning, she drew a deep breath and screamed at th

pounded down the basement stairs, shakin

o

ame splintered into kindling. Bryant stood in the opening, his b

he broken door and pulled

eat," Kacey sobbed, clutching the back of his shi

bulged against his collar, and his Beta aura exploded into t

lying from his lips. "Five years in a silver

ng at the moldy sludge pooling near his boo

"Even if it was dog shit, if Kacey brought it to you, you shoul

ater. Any lingering scrap of childhood memory, any tiny remnant of affecti

," I said, meeting his blazin

ve a choice!"

the back of my neck like an iron vice, lifting me

s thick wrist, digging my nails into his skin

w in a deep breath and unleashed the crushing biologica

ne

through the air, but direct

ower-ranking pack members. Because I was hiding my true bloodline and presenting as a wolfl

ckled automatical

as

ted metal and sour mush. The impact drove the broken silver pin

my tongue and refused to make a sound. Yet, beneath the blinding pain, a strange spark ignited-the

r knees in the Pack Shrine," Bryant pronounced coldly, releasing hi

d Kacey, guiding her out of the ro

bed me roughly by the upper arms, dragging my bleeding knees across the r

y bronze doors of the Pack Shr

ood a towering white marble statue of the Moon Goddess, h

and the heavy iron bar dropp

for breath, the blood from my kne

n to slow, the side door

ense burner in her hands. The polished metal gleamed wi