Chosen By The Moon

Chapter 147

“Can you drive

ve past the

square before we go?” Now it was his turn to frown at me, his entire face screamed nothing but intrigue at what was going on in my head. Even I didn’t understand my sudden idea but I wasn’t going to back out now. Freddie would be safe, for some reason I really did trust Adrian. I never ever would have thought I would trust a wolf to look after my brother, but here I was, knowing he was safe. “You can Leave the truck door open until we leave properly.”

He nodded and jumped into the drivers seat, before slowly pulling out and driving to the square. Flashbacks of all the lashings I’d taken in front of everyone shot through my mind, the little wooden stage sat in all its glory while the two wooden poles, that were there to be tied to providing access to our backs sat in the center of it.

This was were the king made his announcement about my kinds education, this was where my dad was being dragged to before he begged me to shoot him, it was where I took the first lashing of the new world. This was were my mother would have taken her lashing, in Freddie’s stead. It was basically the center for every punishment ever given.

couldn’t get rid of public punishments or lashings completely, but I could stop anyone else getting injured here, I could let the king know I planned to join

and stood in the center thinking about everything. My heart was hammering in my chest, but my limbs were still and unshaken.

alcoholic substance all over the wood and walked around, making sure to

had jumped out and was watching my movements in horror.

of emotion as I stepped back down and took the box of matches out of my pocket, lighting one

lighting up the dark night sky. I ran to the truck and dragged my chains out, before throwing them down onto the floor directly in front of the

1. me.

even Nick, would most likely be called out to help with the fire, so they too would be

again watched Ryan fumble with the door closing and