{Sequel to Smoke & Mirrors}


10 months since Sapphire lost her family.
8 months since she escaped the clutches of a monster.

She might have escaped, but she did not leave undamaged. She knows she will never be the same again.

Her soul still yearns for revenge for her family, she wants to charge into the storm.

But what she does not know is that the storm is raging towards her.

Fangs and Roses

I clenched my jaw as I shouldered Xander’s weight, trying my best to gently move him to the arena. He smiled down at me and tried his best to make light of the situation, but deep in my heart, I knew that he was in a panic… a wolf that can’t move is a dead one. All I could hope was that just like how I was able to move again, he would soon recover and do the same.

My legs burned with each step, the adrenaline rush that I felt when I shifted had come to a crashing halt, all the pain from whatever that liquid did to immobilise my muscles coming in waves, each hitting me without any mercy.

We finally made it to the centre of the arena, where the wolves were waiting for us, my head tilted as pups tussled with each other, oblivious to the deaths that had occurred around them… the sweet ignorance of their innocent minds.

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