Chapter Nineteen

Selene

Her story is horrifying. Really and truly terrifying. The stuff movies are made of and I’m left cold and empty at the end. I have no more tears left to shed. There is something insidious is happening on the streets of our city, but she can’t be right. If my father, or any of the Alpha’s of the Alliance knew about this they would have shut it down, with or without permission from the hideous Lycan King. Lexi is asleep now, her little strained breaths ring out and echo in the desolate, dirty cellar. Her wounds will heal in time. It will take weeks and weeks before she is fully healed, unlike her Lycan counterpart. It is her mind that might never recover. The bed is old and creaks under even the smallest shift of weight, and the mattress is hard and lumpy. It beats the cold floor though. I’m not sure how long I have been locked down here in the dark, but it feels like days. My stomach growls with hunger and the sense of nausea that has gripped my guts makes me dry heave into the d