The neutrality of his face only made me more afraid. What was he thinking? Luke’s words echoed in my head again. A complete psychopath.
Álvaro came in behind us and threw Nika down onto the floor near me. The she-wolf pushed herself up on her elbows until she was sitting sideways, and found the barrel of his reloaded pistol pointed at her forehead from the dark paw-hand of the panther. He didn’t remove the gag, but in Nika’s bloodshot green-blue eyes you could clearly see what she would have wanted to scream at him. The claw wound on her face, at least, had stopped bleeding, although…
As we were, I saw no possible escape. We looked doomed.
To my left, Alexander made his chains jingle, and when I thought he was going to say something (from the way he wrinkled his muzzle), a strong, deep
