[Isolde]
She hesitated, then raised her torch and stepped closer to the cell.
The light spilt through the bars, illuminating the space within.
And I saw him.
Nikolai was on all fours in the centre of the cell, his body trembling with barely contained breaths. His arms were spread apart and chained to opposite corners of the space, the metal links pulled taut. His claws were out, fangs bared and he wore nothing but briefs, his bare skin slicked with sweat despite the cold.
It was a miracle he was still in human form. But seeing how pills were scattered across the stone floor around him, I assumed he'd been drugged to stay this way. Ruts were more easily managed in human form after all.
Still, it was his eyes that stopped my heart.
They glowed. Not the warm green I'd come to know, bu
