I tasted blood on my tongue.
Didn’t move.
Didn’t react.
Years had taught me that reacting only made her hit harder.
“I need you smarter than your father ever was,” she continued sharply. “You have a pack now. You have wolves now. Use your f*****g brain.”
I licked the blood slowly from my lip.
Rage pulsed violently beneath my skin.
One day I was going to kill her too.
But not today.
Today I still needed her.
Maybe more than ever.
She moved further into the room, heels clicking sharply against the floor.
“Tell me exactly what happened.”
Silence stretched for a moment.
Then my mind dragged unwillingly backward.
Blood.
Smoke.
Screaming.
That f*****g gamma almost had me, until he finally collapsed onto the concrete floor while red spread beneath him fast enough to make even me
