Chapter 30

Wren's POV

My fingers trembled as I shielded Nell with my body, her cries echoing in my ears as Alpha Gideon-my father-raised the belt again. The pain lashed across my back, fire blooming along my spine, but I barely felt it.

Something inside me had cracked open.

A voice growled in my mind, low and vicious.

"Let me out."

I froze.

The voice wasn't mine.

"Vala," I whispered without thinking. The nam