Page 15 of Wolf's Endgame

We have felt worse.

A memory of Cannon shooting me resurfaced. I could see how guilty yet determined he looked as he watched me when I cursed him out for using me as an experiment. Being shot was unlike anything I had ever felt. Wrong. It was unlike anything I remembered. My passenger had felt a lot more.

Can you break it?

We are weak. The wolf stood, shaking her head as she did as if she had just woken up, and from the sound of it, she had. We need to eat. Hunt.

We’re chained to a wall, I reminded her. Bale has cameras everywhere. He is watching me. I thought of Landon. He is watching Landon too.

Moonstar considered me. Had she always looked at me like that? Like I was annoying her?

What is it? I asked.

Which male has the key?

It was an excellent question. One I should have known the answer to. I don’t know.

She gave me a side-eye with such an attitude I genuinely didn’t know how I ever thought she was my wolf. She was so clearly her own person. Was she a person?

Focus.

Startled, I met her heavy gaze.

Now is not the time for these questions.

“Sorry.”

I see how you were tricked, she told me with another huff. You should have called for us.

I did call for you! You didn’t answer.

You called for me? How many times?

Twice.

Only twice, child?

I was ashamed to admit it, but she looked at me with such knowing, I knew she already knew why I had only called for her twice. Cannon had told me his thoughts about the inner spirit who hitchhiked in my body, and in truth, I was scared of her.

Admitting it to myself, I looked up to meet her steady gaze. I don’t want to lose myself.

You are always with me, child.

A sliver of fear trickled down my spine. I didn’t want to be with her, I wanted to be. Just me.

You need us.

I did. I wasn’t strong enough to break free on my own. I wasn’t clever enough to fool Bale. Moonstar had broken free from the cell before. She had almost bested Cannon, and it was only his Will that was able to control her. Bale would not hold that power over her.

I would have given her control there and then, but I remembered being shot. Bale may have no alpha Will, but he had silver. Lots of it, and being captured and held here, I knew he wasn’t afraid to use it either.

He will shoot us with silver.

Moonstar paced in my mind, and once again, I was struck by how blind I had been to the obvious fact that this was no ordinary wolf.

Get us free of this. As soon as we are free, no wolf will be able to catch us.

Her words caused more than a shiver of fear this time. And we go back to Blackridge Peak?

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