hia

oria's mother screamed, tea

a trembling

rotten meat yesterday! You wan

olves began to

swept ash from a cold hearth; I could only stand there, a spectator

ame fresh batch," I said cle

eon told us himself! He said you

r face twisting

d you try to punish her! You are nothing but a lowly Omega tryi

he crowd turned i

was a ser

the crowd and stood f

. "Sophia works harder than anyone! The kitchen p

a loud voi

ga who managed the kitchens

vously to th

ne immediately, My Lady," he

and pulled me away

own into his da

" I told him, my voic

ples. "But the Elders are furious. The nobles w

at me with

ill go to the underground basement and s

t was damp, freezing, a

the lump i

ef," I w

n into the d

d and old grease

and started scrubbing

hour later, bringing

liza hissed. "I

etal fiercely. "Once the winter snow melts, I

t a pack. They were hunte

phia, no. You wil

here," I said, tears finally

, after winter?"

un a

n the doorway

the narrow space. His e

ned in the courtyar

ent rage explo

brush into

of witchcraft! I am treated like garbage b

shaking fi

four years. Not a single c

ated rage. His hands clenched and unclenched at his sides, the leather of his gloves creaking under the strain. He looked from my tear-streaked face to my blis

ut of me as tears finally fell into the greasy water. "A mate you h

, his throat working, but the silence stretched, thick an

. The scrubbing sound that filled the silence was the

time, I d

the brush on the rim of the cauldron

oose. Your noblewoman, or me. Speak one word in the light, or I will reject you before the entire pack. And

. For a moment, I saw something crack beh

shing his arm. The Electric Touch

I whispered without looking bac

ent, the silence finally broken by the soun