Chapter 9

ESMERAY

A cold sweat broke out my skin and I turned to run, but strong fingers held me by my hair, pulling me roughly to the ground. His growls reverberated through the forest, his pants getting soaked with blood from the wound I’d inflicted on him with my knife that was still buried in his thighs.

I felt the power from his growl. The kind of power I knew no one in Silver Moon possessed. Not even alpha Thane. The hair at the nape of my neck stood up straight. My lips trembled. My hands trembled. My teeth chattered. My heart skipped many beats, and my body shook with fear. I couldn’t look up at either of them, so I buried my face behind my shaky palms.

These men were in no way connected to Silver Moon pack. They’d not been the ones chasing me an hour ago. I’d attacked and tried to kill the wrong people in my desperation to escape. I was doomed.

The uninjured man picked me up by my collar, shaking me angrily “Who sent you?” he barked in my face. I heard the oth