CHAPTER 185: No Hope

LYRA

I stand still, I don’t lunge, and I don’t let my claws out. I let her hit me again, barely defending myself. Her claws slash across my forearm this time. She knows what she’s doing. Not to kill me, just to mark so I could do the same.

She pulls back, waiting for a reaction.

When I don’t give her one, her brow twitches.

“Are you so fucking pathetic that you can’t even defend yourself?” she lau