Layla’s POVDelphine took a step away from the door, and her gaze was full of meaning as she looked at me before turning on her heels and walking away. I should’ve followed her, but something in me told me that despite my confident words I may not have been ready to see the proof she had to show me.
One of them who looked to be the highest ranking of the bunch stepped forward, dipping his head in a bow of acknowledgement.“High Priestess, we weren’t expecting you.”“Of course,” she told him smoothly. I felt a chill go down my spine at the authority she infused in those two words. “The Alpha req
Hector’s POVCarlos shot me a bewildered look, waiting for an instruction from me to trickle down our mindlink so he would react, but I didn’t. I was too busy fighting off the feeling of panic that had started to bubble up inside me as soon as Layla made her entrance.Now, it was only growing worse
Layla’s POVI wasn’t surprised to find that Delphine had made a quick exit from the dungeon while I was with Hector. She had probably done it with the hope that I would get into some sort of trouble, but as I walked home, I found I didn’t really care about her or her motives. In fact, all of it see
The thought put a bitter taste in my mouth, and while nursing my rage I promised that if I ever found myself in that kind of situation again, I wouldn’t run away. No.I would rip my tormentors to shreds with my teeth, my bare hands, and it wouldn’t matter if it was one or twenty.My resolve only har
Layla’s POVI arrived at the spot where my training took place and immediately started on the moves Hector had taught me, punching, kicking and clawing at invisible opponents ferociously. My limbs felt stiff from weeks of disuse, and I didn’t immediately find my rhythm.Just when I was starting to
I started to protest, but he cut me with a warning look, and even though I wanted to keep at it I knew my own limits. “The doctor told me that he recommended therapy?”I nodded stiffly at this, shaking my head when he asked if that was something I wanted. It may have been unhealthy, but the last t
Fighting soon became a dance as I mastered its rhythms, and my taste for it only grew when Hector started to fight against me. These mock matches ended pretty quickly, and almost always with me on my back facing the sky, but I didn’t hold that against myself because he was a beast of a man.I knew I