Chapter 140: Unexpected Rescuer

Ivy's POV

The sounds of battle filter into the wood cabin’s thin walls with astounding clarity.

What I can hear makes me wince–cut flesh, snapping teeth, torn-out fur. Wolf’s feet padding along the round frantically. Bodies tossed into the trees. Every sound is familiar and distinct to me, and I hate how well I’ve come to recognize all the different sounds of violence.

I listen intently, fixated on anything that’ll break the monotony that I’ve been forced through. I can’t see anything in the cabin’s darkness, but my mind can conjure a million different terrible images. What’s happening out there? Does it involve me?

Am I finally going to get out of here?

As I continue my theorizing, a girl’s anguished cry suddenly cuts through the air.

The voice sounds familiar.

As soon as I figure out whose voice it is, my heart plummets.

It’s Delilah.

“Delilah? Is that you?” I scream out desperately. “It’s me, Ivy, I’ve been taken hostage and I’m stuck in this cabin!”

But there’s no answer–ju