Page 32 of Moon Cursed

But it wouldn’t save him.

If anything, it made him a target. The energy now radiating within him might just give me the boost I needed to finish the job before Kane stopped me.

You’re first,I thought with a sense of manic glee.

Blood rushed through my ears and my fur spiked on the ends, my body reacting to the decision.

Poised.

Ready to strike.

My wolf howled in my head, eager for our revenge.

“Forgive us,” one of the alphas said, freezing me in my tracks.

I whirled on the one who had spoken, finding a male with bright green eyes the color of emeralds.

He was the one who had stopped my captor from killing me.

Because of him, I’d been rejected instead of slaughtered on that moondial.

A false kindness. He’d said those dreaded words just like all the rest.

He’drejectedme.

And that agony still burned.

I growled at him with a low, guttural sound. The entirety of my wolf’s spirit rose to the surface as my claws scraped the ground.

He dies first,my wolf decided.

I agreed.

He dared to ask for forgiveness after what they’d just put me through?

After all the suffering and death humans experienced simply because they weren’t shifters?

Snapping at him, I lunged, but a hard grip around my scruff kept me from sinking my teeth into the alpha’s exposed neck.

What the…?

Snarling, I yipped and flailed like a wild animal, twisting and squirming to get to the offending hand that had stopped my rightful vengeance.

“Be still, Kaitsja. Listen with your wolf’s heart.”

Who was Kane to tell me what to do?

He dares to ask for forgiveness?I shrieked in my head.

I could never forgive him.

Not just for rejecting me, but for doing this to me. I was supposed to have died last night.

Instead, I lived on as the last hope for humanity.

I’d been away from my village too long. Had my sister been spared from all of this?

Did Charlie’s family know that he was gone?