THE AWAKENING

Chapter-5-

Cassandra struggled to be free, but the grip holding her felt like iron bands clamped around her thighs.

“Let me go!” she screamed like a banshee, rising up to claw at his face with her nails but her efforts were met with steely silence as they ran through the night.

The cold air burned her face and she began to shiver.

They entered what looked like a cave and were immediately enveloped in inky darkness but her captor navigated the tricky twists and turns as if they were traveling a lighted path.

They emerged in a large cavern where he finally set her down with little finesse or grace. She landed on her rear with a squeak of pain but he paid her little heed as he was too busy building a small fire to warm the ice-box interior.

In truth, she was too cold to flee even if, by chance she could find her way out. Her legs felt like frozen stalks of flesh that might shatter if she tried to run.

The walls were rough hewn by time, dripping large formations from the ceiling like frozen teardrops. The desolate atmosphere only heightened the chill permeating her bones.

“Hurry, I’m going to die of hypothermia,” she snapped to her captor.

The man shot her a dark look as if annoyed she could speak and pulled a hidden stash of firewood from a hole in the cavern to toss in a blackened fire pit.

“Vacation home?” she quipped.

“You test me,” he warned.

pretty comfortable in the barren

blaze filled the cavern with dancing light and she reluctantly sought the heat when he

“Come, warm yourself, she-wolf.”

a jutted jaw. “The least you can do is call me by

but she was going to freeze if she didn’t get some of that heat. Meeting his stare with a glare, she scooted over

shut. She’d been kidnapped by a man who was strong

Jandin and Koris, but there was something gracefully dangerous about the lines in

possibly to soften the fact

want to examine, he was breathtaking in a lethal, anti-hero way that she found

different from the others. As a test, she

her the trouble. She gasped and recoiled, not quite

she

smile faded. “And neither are you. Otherwise, two rival werewolf clans wouldn’t be tearing

stare with open challenge. “I didn’t

out for you?” he asked

if you’re not a werewolf,

not been a Breeding female

with a hard one of his own.

“Others, we simply let nature

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