"You've been a healer this whole time?" I asked as Antoine sat me down on a bed for TJ to examine me. "Is it that hard to believe?" TJ asked, looking slightly offended. "Why can't I be a healer?" "Because the Elite Squad is supposed to be the ass puppies of that bastard." Asher offered with a smir
"Because you didn't need to be involved." Antoine quipped, appearing beside me and wrapping a protective arm around my waist. "I had everything under control." "Clearly." Ashton snorted, his eyes roaming up and down my body, taking in my battered state. "So much so, Haidan is luckily still in one p
"What happened?" I asked as tears began to freely flow down my cheeks. "Why is she like this?" "Side effects of the spell that was on her." A man that looked to be in his forties with bright red hair and intense green eyes responded, taking me by surprise. Whirling, I forgot about my injuries, ins
The next day, I found myself sitting at a round table with eight others. They eyed me curiously as I tried to not squirm under their scrutinizing gazes. When I woke up in the morning, Duke Randal immediately came to find me, insisting that I needed to be part of their tactics meeting. Apparently, w
"What did you say?" Gasper asked, his eyes growing huge. "You are saying that we go in there and attack just like that?" Even though I agreed with Gasper that Duke Randal's plan didn't necessarily sound all that appealing, I was curious about what else he had up his sleeve. Would he simply say that
"It's fine." I said, done with all the emotions I was being forced to feel. "Instead, shouldn't all of you be getting back before you get in trouble?" "No one is going to notice that we're missing." Henry insisted, defiantly. "Plus, from what I've heard, you have a surprise attack happening soon. D
"So, you're saying that tomorrow your group plans on using guerilla warfare to take on the Lycan King?" Ashton said, eyeing me with suspicion. I had just finished explaining everything to Henry, Richard, Ashton, and Antoine. The entire time, the men remained quiet as I spoke. But, as the words left
Ashton remained silent, his unfathomable eyes fixed on me as what I told him sunk in. I was pretty sure that out of all the things he expected to come from me, this wasn't it. "You're lying, right?" Ashton hissed as a bark of laughter escaped him. "How could you confuse those two things?" Biting