EllaWhen I saw the image of my sweet little sister laying in her bed with that awful message attached, it felt as though I had been shot. I stood there for a long time, just trembling with fear. I couldn’t even hear my own wolf’s voice echoing in my head until she suddenly shouted my name.“Ella!” she exclaimed. “Do something!”
EllaSomehow, I managed to fall asleep after Marina’s hellish phone call. But it felt as though I had only been asleep for mere minutes before I was suddenly alerted by the sound of a thud coming from my front door.Immediately, I jumped out of bed on high alert and looked around frantically. My wolf pointed me toward the source of the sound, and so I grabbed the heavy bat I kept under my bed and began to tiptoe out of my bedroom.
LoganI couldn’t believe what Ella had just shown me.An envelope of photos of Miles, not only the leader of my pit crew but also a close friend of many years, sat on my passenger seat beside me. The photos were just about as incriminating as they could get; they depicted Miles going to lengths to clearly sabotage me.
EllaI couldn’t believe the mess I had gotten myself into. I felt like a fraud, a manipulator, no better than Marina herself.But I needed to keep my little sister safe. Her life was the most precious thing to me, and I would be damned if I let anything happen to her.However, despite my turmoil, time had to go
Ella“The… racetrack?” I asked incredulously. My eyes flickered over to the laptop screen, which had gone dark by now. I could see my reflection, and the woman that stared back at me looked terrified.“Yeah,” Logan said, his tone slightly cautious. “Is that a problem?”I paus
Ella“Get in.”Logan’s words hung in the air of the now-silent racetrack, heavy and daunting. I stared at him incredulously for a few moments, half expecting him to laugh and say he was just kidding, but his expression was nothing but serious.“You want me to… Get in there?&rdqu
Ella“Open your eyes, Ella.”I hadn’t even realized it, but at some point during my panic, I had squeezed my eyes shut.Slowly, I cracked my eyes open one at a time. I was still sitting in the passenger seat with Logan beside me. The air still smelled like leather and gasoline, and the engine was gen
EllaWhen I finally tore my gaze away from the brilliant sky that hung over us, I was met with Logan’s blue-eyed gaze in the dim light of the car.My eyes widened slightly, and for what felt like the longest time, we just looked at each other. I felt as though he was searching me, searching my gaze for any hint of insincerity in my words.But it was the truth. Everything I had told him, everything from Marina’s threats to the hitman who she said she had hired to watch my every move, was the cold, hard truth. And honestly, I was terrified—terrified that, when I returned to my phone on the bleachers, there would be a missed call from Marina.Somehow, I suspected that she had heard everything. Somehow, despite Logan’s attempts to get us out of her range of sight—or rather, hearing—I felt as though she was still here, watching and listening to my every move.But it was too late now. The truth was out and it was up to Logan to