My lungs contracted, panic growing as her words sank into me.
The memory of the ravine struck like lightning: the van, the ropes cutting into my wrists, the edge of the abyss drawing closer. Caleb had saved me then, his humanoid wolf form bursting into the night, but now he wasn’t here. Ethan was gone, distracted by the call Serena had orchestrated. I was alone.
“Serena, I don’t want Ethan,” I said, trying to stay calm, my voice trembling. “I rejected him. I’m not going back to him. You don’t have to do this. Please, let me go. You were my maid of honor at the wedding. I wanted us to be friends. How did we get here?”
“Friends?” she spat, taking another step forward, her face twisted with rage. “You could have been my friend until you became an obstacle. You should have accepted Ethan’s
