Page 74 of Blood Day: Part Two

“That’s not a pet candidate,” Silvano told him.

Khalid flipped the tablet to review it. “Oh, sorry, my cursor must have slipped. Hold on.” He swiped at it with his clothed hand, which somehow managed to make the screen move. “There.”

He showed me an image of a brunette next—Prospect Four Hundred and Nine.

But I didn’t see her at all.

I only saw Lily and the information he’d just given me.

Her moon chase designation.

And more importantly, her intended destination.

Silvano made a few choice comments about the prospect on the screen, telling me he didn’t approve of the choice.

I pretended to agree, my thoughts otherwise distracted by the new strategy forming in my mind.

Khalid had promised to help me.

And it seemed he had in a way.

Because somehow, someway, Lily was destined for the one wolf territory I knew like my literal backyard—Clemente Clan.

I just needed to survive this visit with Silvano and head home.

Then I could go hunting for myErosita.

Don’t wilt, my darling Lily.

I’m coming for you.

I promise.

Chapter15

Lily

I am no longerProspect Four Hundred and Seven.I glanced down at the card in my hand.I am now Moon Chase Item Seventeen, Designation Clemente Clan.

The blonde female beside me held a similar card, only hers said,Breeding Bitch Twelve, Designation Clemente Clan.Above it were the wordsBlood University Three, Prospect Seven Hundred and One, Year One Hundred and Seventeen. That distinction was crossed out, just like mine.

Only mine saidBlood University Seven, Prospect Four Hundred and Seven, Year One Hundred and Seventeen.

I assumed the number distinction after the university detailed which one we’d attended. It seemed like a safe assumption to make, considering she was a stranger to me.

A lycan growled from the front of the bus, his gaze on a silently sobbing woman a few seats in front of me. She was doing her best not to make a sound—all of us were—but the shifter obviously felt that the human needed to try harder.

I ignored the exchange, my gaze dropping to my card again.I am now Moon Chase Item Seventeen.I kept repeating the statement, each time with hopes that Cedric would hear me and respond.

Disappointment threatened to drown me every time he didn’t acknowledge me.

But I kept trying.

Even as we were shuffled off of the bus and onto a plane.

Even after finding my place inside a cage.

Even as I was told to lie down and sleep.