NovelEnglishChapter 74 AURORA No! I leaped up from my desk so fast I knocked the heavy wooden chair over.
Yes, the clone ofhissed.
She rose and folded her arms across her chest in a superior way, then tilted her chin up so she was looking down her nose at me.
Youve forgotten yourself.
Who you were made to be.
Raised to be.
I took a step back, and the wicked version of myself answered by stepping around my desk.
Dont run from it, Ann.
You are a monster years in the making.
I opened my mouth to argue that I was no monster, but nothing.
cout.
The otherpicked my journal up off my desk and weighed it in her hand.
Read this.
Youll see.
She offered it to me.
I shook my head.
Refused to take it.
Her smile turned into an evil grimace.
You wont go willingly? Fine.
Go by force.
She lunged forward.
The book fell open with her movement, and she shoved it into my face.
I braced for the impact.
But there was no impact.
Chapter 74 2/6 Instead, when the pages hit me, the world went dark.
My office was gone.
The safe, cozy sights and scents of the Blue Ridge pack house were gone.
Instead, there was the old, musty scent of basement and damp .
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I looked around.
I was in the Broken Forest pack house, where Id found the pages.
I looked down at myself.
Unlike my usual pastels or light neutrals, I wore black .
It made my skin look white as printer paper in comparison.
I touched my hair.
It was long and pulled into a thick French braid that hung straight down my back.
In the first instant, it was as alien toas if Id been shoved into a new body.
Then, like a door opening inside my mind, I realized it was familiar.
All of this was familiar.
This was me.
It was the life Id lived for years.
I was in a memory.
I wasnt in my room this tbut walking down a long hall.
Chapter 74 3/6 Someone moved at my side.
I didnt have to look to know it was Esther Reed.
She looked tall, and that meant I had to be young .
How old? Your latest mission was a failure, she snapped Fear welled up in my belly.
I knew what failure meant.
Id bet whipped.
Bled.
When you served it, nothing could atone for failure except suffering Mother, no! I cried.
My voice also sounded young.
Was I 12 ? 13? No one seemed to know when my birthday was.
This felt so wrong.
I wanted to be a good servant.
I wanted my mother to love me.
But when I tried to do the evil things they madedo ... Inside, my wolf whimpered.
She didnt like this either.
She had always been so weak and stunted, because I was weak and stunted.
We werent enough.
Esther interrupted my thoughts.
Take her away.
When her throat is raw from screaming, shell be allowed to try again.
Burn the guilt from her.
NO! But Esther wouldnt listen.
She turned aside and muttered something as hands grabbedand started to dragaway, but I thought she said, Nameless help me, this one has been the hardest of all to break.
Chapter 74 4/6 The memory flashed, bouncing through scenes of torture that madeweep with remembered agony.
Everything faded to darkness again the darkness of nightmares.
Slowly, my heart started to turn cold.
The next tI was aware, I stood outside with Esther and my Alpha, Waylon.
They didnt look so tall, and when I looked down at my body, I could tell I was older.
I felt... colder inside.
Numb.
My wolf was a weak, starving thing inside me.
I tried to never shift because I was so ashamed.
Letsee your hands, Esther snapped.
I held them up.
were covered in blood.
I ambushed one of the Blue Ridge scouts.
She was old.
Easy to kill.
Good, said Waylon.
My father almost never spoke, and his praise warmedlike a fire on a cold night.
But I wont allow you to sleep.
Not until you kill two more.
No food, either.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmIt had been days since Id eaten.
Days since I slept.
My mind slipped from me, from that place.
Nothing felt clear.
Nothing but my burning desire to serve them and their master.
Yes, Alpha, I said.
Waylon stepped forward and grabbed my chin.
He looked down at my body, and a leer crossed his wrinkled face.
Do well, and Chapter 74 III teach you other things.
5/6 I swallowed, fear prickling in me.
I crushed it.
If I didnt seem cager to serve in every way, they would punish me.
There would be pain, then less food, less sleep.
Yes, Alpha.
You cant use her like you do the others, Esther snapped as the scene started to fade .
Remember, I have other plans for her ... Everything faded again except the darkness, and pain.
I was nothing and nowhere.
All around was black.
As forever passed, someone cried.
I think it was me.
What do you desire? The voice cfrom everywhere and where, as if it was asked by the darkness itself. To be good, I answered without thought.
Wrong.
I know you, Ann Reed.
Tell me, what do you desire? It dug into my brain with cold-claws as if rummaging around for the answer it wanted. Then it showed the answer to me.
I shuddered, and answered as if the words were pulled from my throat, Power so that can never be hurt En.
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