Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 187

I turn away from Bianca and make my way to the door of the shabby cabin. The wolfsbane is still coursing through my veins, making every step feel heavy and labored.

But despite the poison, I feel alive and invigorated from the adrenaline rush of the fight. My senses are heightened, and everything around me feels more vivid. But there’s no time to savor my relief at my escape. Rhett’s call means he is

probably sending others to help Bianca at any moment. I have to get out of here while I still can.

Heart pounding, I race for the door, desperate to escape this nightmarish prison. To get back to my family, my pack.

Back to Soren.

The sudden openness feels almost dizzying after the suffocating confines inside; I clutch my knees and look around to find I am on one of the piers, huge ships docked along one side, and I stare out over the water before turning my gaze to the building I just escaped. It’s only a single level, making me wonder where

movement ahead snaps my attention forward. A familiar

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the sight of him. Part of me wants to rush into his arms, to be

each other across the distance, the silence stretching taut between us. Soren’s expression is unreadable, and his posture is rigid and

my name emerging somewhere between a prayer and a question. My

anger. I notice Damian standing behind him not far away as more cars screech into the parking lot around the docks. I stagger forward, knowing I can’t run from him, not

desperate contorts his features. It sends confusion, skittering through me. Why

the air at the same time; I hear the door to the little office cabin–looking thing I

and knocking us both to the ground. Pebbles bite into my back as we

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