na's

while I recovered

leaving behind a jagged scar across my ab

blood still stained my lips when I coughed, and the doctor

ow, the sun never reached me. All I saw were the overlapping glow of battered old-

been more different fr

een a Luna, and no one sneer

long while, I felt som

returned with updates

verywhere for me. He had even tried ex

is authority meant something on the surface. Down he

he heartbroken victim who had collapsed f

it took was one interview of her fighting back tears with

ad remained at the hospital for days, fait

o was laugh a

ee-year marriage, Kael had treated me as though I deserved to su

.

nvitation in my direction. "Information on the auction

skimmed it before lifting my

though, it's a black-market auction put together by the underground networks of several major packs." Damon dropped onto the couch. "W

the invitation. "Do you

is one of the few things that can suppress silver poison. If Aria

worth selling." A faint

ew together.

rawer, took out a small box, a

he Luna's ring, glea

before he looked back at me.

ly. "I'm no longer the Lun

"I'll make sure it's handled without leaving

g in my bounty hunter acco

yebrow. "You stil

d to disappear." I fell quiet for a beat before

. "So you really plan

him no

e stayed beside Kael for three long years. I would

omething deep inside my chest, lea

the Brooks estate'

rstood imm

he replied, "Not yet. As far as

et out the breath

show up as Selena. Security on that vessel is no joke. Every

to the same routine. The doctor s

violent coughing fit. When I lowered the handkerchief

ere's no more time to waste. If we don't secure th

ready

the doctor quickly added. "It'll hide your condition and make you appear com

through the auction, th

rgue, yet after a long silence, all h

need reas

ready accepted what that decision would cost me. Soo

t accept was d

even if all I had left

.

e back carrying a folder of f

m your old bounty hunter account. Combined with the mone

ugh to buy the

River Pack has an aging Alpha hanging on by a thread, waiting for it to keep him alive. You're

Then I'll leave the rest to fate. Whatever happe