Findher.
But I can’t. I’m helpless.
Everyone is terrified of me but no one willgive me what I want.
The guards who come in to feed us now won’t look at me. They’ll shove the food through the bars with a stick.
Maybe they know what I’m thinking.
Can read my murderous thoughts on my face.
Shealways seemed to know what I was thinking.
“Stop pacing for a second,” Ash hisses.
I don’t stop.
Why stop when this is all I can do?
“Seriously! Someone is fucking coming, can’t you hear that?” He growls.
That makes me freeze. It’s not meal time, which means it’s someone new.
I strain to hear what Ash is hearing. It’s hard. It feels like I’m underwater. Has since she was taken.
But then I hear it. An ATV with a transport cage.
The bars of the stable door press into my cheeks as I crane my neck to see the barn door.
They open.
There’s Rowan, pulling a cage behind him.
I scent her before I see her.
Strawberries.Mine.
Small pale hands wrap around Rowan’s waist.
But there’s something off. Something different.
She smells like... Griffin. Not entirely. But her scent has changed.
“Youmotherfucker,” Ash snarls, throwing himself at his stable door with a crash.
The impact reverberates all the way to my door and my hackles rise.
Ash is smarter than me.
I’m stupid.
So if he’s angry, then I should be angry too.
The roar that leaves my throat echoes off the walls. It’s been pent up for who knows how long.
“Hey, hey, hey! Guys! Calm down, please!” Mirabelle says, clambering off the ATV and stretching out her hands.
“Calm? You want us to be fucking calm when the new guybondedyou to him?” Ash spits.
