Scout’s POV
"You did this, Luna Scout, and now Nathan is going to pay for it!"
The scream shattered the wood of my door, exploding straight through my skull before my eyes could even adjust to the grey morning light. My boots hit the floorboards before I was even fully awake. My muscles ached with a heavy, leaden numbness, the kind that came from four hours of dead sleep after a night of handling wolfsbane.
I hauled the door open, my fingers slipping twice on the cold brass knob.
Alice stood in the hallway, her face white, her jaw locked so tight the tendons in her neck looked like wires. She did not wait for an invitation. She rammed her shoulder against my chest, forcing me back into the small, cramped bedroom, and kicked the heavy oak door shut behind her. The slam rattled the tin w
