Chapter 157. She Belongs to Me

“Wait.” Alice’s voice, soft now, stopped me in my tracks. The single word carried more urgency than anything she had said before. I froze, hand on the doorframe.

“Did I see it right?” she whispered, eyes wide as she leaned forward. Confusion tangled with fear in her voice. My pulse skipped. Did she see…? Before I could answer, she darted out of the room as if something urgent had caught her attention.

I stood alone for a moment, listening to the distant echoes of her footsteps. Every face in this stronghold was strange; I had learned that much in my short time here. What had she glimpsed on me that startled her so?

Voices drifted into my cell, low and hurried. “She’s still inside the room,” someone murmured.

“Alice, I swear I saw it,” another voice—Alpha Stephen’s, I realized—argued in hushed tones, though the volume was enough to carry through the wooden door. I pressed my ear to the crack, trying to catch every word. Had she seen the mark? The one no human