The Alpha is back…to hunt you.
The words settled slowly, like snow that refused to melt.
She lifted her chin. “So what now?” Her voice carried farther than she expected. “I’m supposed to stay inside and wait? Hide behind walls like a coward? I don’t know how things are done where you come from, it’s not how it works here.”
Elijah’s jaw tightened, but he did not speak. Somehow, her father has become the little boy version of himself in his father’s presence. She can’t imagine what kind of relationship even exists between them.
But Gerard did speak.
“Your father,” he said, “taught you many things.”
Lilith crossed her arms. “He taught me not to run.”
Gerard’s eyes caught the floodlights as he turned to her fully. There was no warmth in them. Coldness and strictness seem to run in the
