Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 159

I pull harder at the restraints, each tug sending fresh pain through my wrists, but I don’t care. I’d rather tear my skin open than let this happen.

Bianca’s voice rises, thick with disgust. “And if she resists? You think she’s just going to submit willingly after

everything?” Her words are edged with a warning, as though even she sees the danger in this plan.

“She won’t have a choice,” Rhett replies coldly. “Once she’s marked, her instincts will force her to obey. She won’t even be able to think of defying me. It’s a mercy, really.” He chuckles, a dark, humorless sound that makes my skin crawl. “Better than what she deserves.”

My stomach twists at his words. I’m nothing to him but a tool, a pawn to be controlled and discarded when I’m no longer useful. Rage bubbles up inside me, hot and fierce, cutting through the fog of pain and fear. If I get out of this—when I get out of this–he’s going to regret every word he’s just said.

“And what about me? Huh, you can’t take both of us as Mates!”

I lie still, forcing myself to calm down, to think clearly. If I let the panic take over, I’m done for. I need to find a way out, to buy myself time before Rhett tries to make his twisted plan a reality.

but my mouth is dry as

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kidnapping me.

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could control moments ago turns to panic once again and has me tugging at my restraints, desperation taking over as adrenaline surges through me. The straps bite into my skin, but

exhaustion quickly sets in. I fall

my eyes.

I want to be tied to the bitch?” Rhett’s voice cuts through the silence, low and dangerously calm, a quiet fury lurking beneath each word. “It‘ s the only way to secure my claim

quickening, thundering in my ears. No, please don’t let that be true. The thought that they could both be gone, that I might never see my parents again, claws at me, threatening to drown me in grief. But I force it back, shoving the emotions down with every ounce of

keeping my mind clear. I don’t have the luxury of breaking

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