Chapter 14: A Lesson in Submission

Running on shredded feet while a Lycan's venom burned through my veins was suicide. The punctures on my neck throbbed with a persistent heat, reminding me with every breath that my body was no longer my own. I couldn't run today.

Instead, a colder purpose took hold.

Elsie had four years before her eighteenth birthday. Four years before the elders would drag her toward the cliff in a thin slip. I w