Chapter 33

ALINA

I wanted to leave. Every inch of me screamed to get out of this place, to escape the web of lies and manipulation that had trapped me. But Maria and Nina had told me there was a lockdown in the pack. No one was allowed to leave or enter because of the dangers that had been going on in the pack. Kai had gotten my necklace back. He got it the same day that I asked him to get it for me, and I could not even be thankful to him because he was the reason why I had lost it. Instead whenever I saw him, I was filled with a burning rage.

I felt trapped, like a caged animal, and the fact that Kai had orchestrated all of this made my blood boil. Every time he came to my room, trying to talk, trying to explain, I shut him out. It didn’t matter what he had to say. Nothing could undo what he had done. The fact that he thought that he was going to be able to sway me was what stunned me the most. His audacity was alarming.

Earlier today, he had come with flowers, of all things, as if that would