Chapter 99

It's been a year since Ariadne's transformed. She's forgotten the sheer power that comes with it, washing over her body in waves, adrenaline pumping through her wolf blood.

Ariadne doesn't expect to feel it. Animal minds are supposed to be simpler, right?

She thinks in this form, she can escape it, the feelings that are threatening to crush her to dust, pain so acute that it's hard to breathe. But it's stronger than before, agony where there'd only been an ache.

Ariadne sees her reflection, a great and terrible beast in her son's eyes, who recoils backward, never having witnessed his mother's transformation.

Ashely's terrified, hiding behind Victor, studying her with a wide, wary expression.

"Give her back her son," Nathan shouts from the background, getting out of the passenger side, a hand on his neck from the whiplash of running the gate. "What the f*ck, Victor?"

Ariadne's going half-mad, so many scents, so many people, but where did Gordon run off to.

There's so much noise, and sh