Chapter 129

Pearl opened her eyes to slits and immediately noticed three things. For starters, she was lying on a very flat, hard, and cold floor. As in marble. Two, her head hurt so much that she wanted to curl up into a fetal posture. She suppressed that instinct, as well as the want to leap to her feet and flee. Three, she was no longer a ferocious wolf. Someone had dressed her up in a long white gown and slippers.

Wow, how considerate.

Male voices muttered above her. She pretended to be unconscious in the hopes of hearing something interesting.

"What did you do with the lady?”

"I reconnected her with her family."

"Did you ditch her?" Man One appeared enraged.

Man Two snickered. “I reunited her with them in the dungeon. ”

Pearl considered those words and the implications of them. Was it possible that Alisa had done what she’d done because these monsters were holding her family on condition of her good behaviour? If so, Alisa never should have assumed the Al