-SELENE-
Sander’s hand tore the locket from my neck so violently, the chain snapped.
The jolt caught me off guard. Just for a second. But that second cost me.
The mounted knight spun his baton. Power cracked from it like a whip, slicing through the air—and through me.
My wolf vanished. Locked away in some shadowed corner of my mind.
"Mona?" I called.
Nothing.
Sander knew what the locket was. I told him Queen Raja had given it to protect me. It would've shielded me from the silver baton's magic.
I trusted him with that. I thought he was my friend.
But that was the lie.
He held the locket in his fist, the broken chain trailing from his fingers. His gaze flicked from my face to the charm. Then he clenched his hand and hurled it into the woods.
Gone.
"What did you do, Sander?" I wh
