Chapter 69

Ember’s POV

Becky had been gone an awfully long time and I was starting to worry. I knew from firsthand experience that the longer you were away from the cell, the worse state you would return to it in.

I hated that she was being punished in my place, all because the damn psycho bitch wanted to break me down, but as much as I wanted to give in and pretend that she had won, there was a part of me that refused to do that.

The part of me that demanded that I tear her apart at the first opportunity and I was only too eager to do that, but was it worth Becky’s suffering in the meantime?

I had tried everything that I could think of to get through to my wolf, but nothing I tried worked and I had given up for now, slumping down onto the filthy stone floor, avoiding the straw filled mattresses as much as I could.

I could only wonder at the fate of the countless unfortunate victims that had no doubt shared this mattress before us. The grime and bacteria, a