Chapter 20. The Full Moon’s Trick

Long before she was captured by those Traders, she had met a boy, her only companion in a warzone between humans and werewolves. Homeless and without family, they both roamed the streets, evading daily patrols while searching for scraps to survive. They were each other’s only light in the darkness, they alone understood each other’s pain.

A few months before he met Sarah, his sister had been killed by an Alpha werewolf. That night, with his flesh cooking in the flames engulfing the walls of his home, he was unable to confirm his family’s death and could only run to survive. After that, he hated werewolves enough to have pushed that emotion over the limit.

Similarly, Sarah had lost everything because of those same beasts; werewolves who never batted an eye after killing a human. So they made a promise, a promise to become strong enough to wipe the lands of wolves and start afresh.

She hated them back then just the same, but as she grew, that hatred slowly subsided a