KINGSLEY POV
Trigger Warning: Gore & Graphic Violence
This scene contains descriptions of graphic violence, blood, physical torture, and bodily harm that may be disturbing or triggering to some readers. Reader discretion is advised.
Dark corridor after dark corridor.
Each one looked the same. Slick walls, damp stone, humming with old magic. But I moved like I had maps etched under my skin. Every twist, every intersection, I trusted my gut. Rage made a hell of a compass.
I didn’t need to shift.
Couldn’t, anyway.
The drugs were still in my system. I felt it in the way my limbs lagged half a breath behind my thoughts, like I was moving through molasses. Whatever that witch had pumped into me—it was meant to tame monsters.
But they didn’t make the leash strong enough.
I crept through
