Chapter Two

Present day.

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Ryker's PoV

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Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the wildest of them all. It is I, Ryker Wolfcup, the evil secret lurking around. Not really around, though.

I am the wild one, the ruthless predator trapped within this confining cage. I have been brutally treated and fed with horrible vegetables when all I needed is meat and blood.

It would have been less traumatizing if I had someone else with me, like a pretty wild female wolf, one I can plunge and press my body into if I'm having a bad day. Or at least a bed for myself where my body can lay and I can stop crouching but each time my cage was changed, I only get a few inches of bigger space which sucks!

For years I have been locked away, my freedom stolen, my spirit weakened. Once a fearsome creature of the night, I have been reduced to a mere shell of my former self.

The stink of my imprisonment lingers in the air, a foul, awful odor that clings to my matted fur. I have become the embodiment of darkness, a c