Chapter 96

Gabby’s POV

I find myself in a shallow pool of dark water, small waves lap against my thighs and tickle my neck. My hair sways in the rippling water and my paling skin glows like the moon. Where am I?

Sitting up, I look out and see nothing but water and the moonlight reflecting off of it. Far in the distance the light moves, creating shapes of wolves that dance as if they were one entity. They move together and their light is pure.

But as the dance goes on, their movements become disjointed and random. The light grows weak and the air cold. Creatures of the night creep in, slashing the throats of the brother wolves that fought each other.

A young witch watches over it all, she smiles under her black lace veil. Blood dripping from her black eyes and roaches falling like an angry waterfall from her mouth. She laughs openly, delightfully, at the carnage before her. The witch’s power grows from the deaths of the wolves and the destruction they create.

“Chil