Page 152 of A Silent Prodigy for the Lycan Princess

“Get your stinky hands off me, you bastard!” someone else, a female voice, yells.

“And who’s that?” I ask.

“No idea, just stay back.” I can see how Coralie’s body tenses. For all her aloofness she is probably as terrified of the situation as I am, but she doesn’t show it.

The door opens, and I carefully peek at it from behind Coralie. Azurite stumbles inside, and then, to my surprise, one of the guys tosses Tori into our room, a silver chain around her wrist to keep her lycan at bay.

What’s Tori doing here!?

Coralie is similarly surprised. This is one of Princess Aurelia’s friends. Are they nuts for abducting her? They are taking it up with the royals? It’s one thing to take Coralie and me, but this girl!? Before we can say something, Tori has already pushed us all further to the back.

“We need to separate them, Night,” the guy who tossed Tori inside says.

“No,” the one named Night, the scariest of them, huffs. “Keep them in one place. Easier to control that way. We don’t want history to repeat itself like with Opal. We lost too many gems that day.”

When Night takes a step inside the room, Tori grabs the chair and holds it up in front of her body while making sure we stay in the back. “Stay away from them, you fucking pedo!” she snarls.

“For an omega she is pretty feisty,” the other guy points out.

Night scowls. “We’ll deal with that later; she will break, like all of them do.” He turns to the guy. “You stay here and keep an eye on them, Sky.” He grabs him by his throat. “I swear if you even touch my perfect little gemstone, my Azurite, I will shred you topieces like I did with PJ,” he snarls. “Do whatever you want with the others.” He turns to a guy who is standing further behind them. “Let’s go, Junior!”

Why are they leaving? Coralie and Tori seem slightly relieved, but I find it weird. They just abducted Tori and now want to leave again. What for? It doesn’t make sense.

Night gazes at Azurite. “I will be back, my Azurite. I promise I will be back,” he says before he closes the door behind him, leaving Sky with us. Oh shoot, one of the creeps is still here.

“You are Meg, aren’t you?” Tori looks at Azurite. “Just stay back, sweetie. I have this.”

“She is right.” Coralie stands next to Tori now. “He can’t overpower us all. Stay back, Léna.”

“And have you get hurt again?” I call out.

“Please,” Coralie begs. “Just protect yourself and… and Meg.”

“Meg,” Azurite mutters. “Meg. I’m Azurite, no, I’m Meg—”

“Cute,” Sky snickers. “But how exactly, will four wolfless girls stand up against me?”

He grabs the chair Tori is holding, tugging it off her hand and reaching for her. Then in the blink of a moment Sky punches her, making her fly to the ground.

“I’m Meg… I’m Azurite. No!” Azurite, or rather Meg, calls out, grabbing the bottle she brought us so that we have fresh water, and dashes forward, knocking it over Sky’s head. “I’m not Azurite!” Sky tumbles at the impact, but with his wolf still going strong, he recovers fast.

“I don’t care what the boss says,” he sneers. “Even if you are special. You die tonight. I will tell him it was one of you other girls. Worthless trashy little omegas.”

“I’m not an omega,” Coralie says.

“Not the point,” I mutter.

“What?” Coralie shakes her head. “He is an idiot, that’s all I’m saying.”

The next time I blink, I’m looking directly into a gun, my heart stops for a moment. It’s like something cold grips me, the fear so real that my body starts shaking.

Coralie grabs me and Meg and pulls us closer, wrapping us in her arms. “Don’t look,” she whispers. “Just look at me.”

Meg blinks fearfully at us while I try to swallow. “A few shitty decisions don’t define you,” I tell Coralie. If this is the last thing she can hear, I want her to know it. “Who you were doesn’t need to define your life. But this here… this is who you truly are.”

I can’t believe that’s it. This is how I die.

Chapter forty-eight