Chapter Twenty - Five

WOLF

I find myself locked inside a cage when everything eventually stops spinning, my stomach still feels like it's been freshly pulled from a drier, but my headache is at least gone.

The cage I'm stuck in is the same cage inside the hole initially intended for Sasha when we arrived here; the metals of these bars are made from very raw and unbreakable metal, specifically created to hold our kind and restrain them. I could not break out of here if I tried; my body feels like it's been dragged through a grinder; whatever that witch said to me disagreed with my indigestion. Fuck.

Then, I sense her somewhere behind me, gritting my teeth in distaste; I close my eyes, my back facing her as I sit against the metal bars of the cage as I grumble,

"Not now," of all the times and all the people, Mason is the last person I want to see. The moment you no longer look at someone without imagining all the ways you could end their lives, you know it's over; there's no coming back from that, and