- SERENA -
“You’re so pathetic. I didn’t even go hard on you!” Maddie’s taunt rings through my head, hammering loudly inside my skull.
Before I can stop it, a sliver of that chaotic energy reaches toward her. I yank it back just as her foot slams into the side of my head, the impact sending me sprawling.
I could end them. Every single one of them. A flick of my wrist, and they’d be gone. They’d be dead.
STOP!
A whimper escapes before I can stifle it. The dread coils tighter, suffocating me, holding me in its chokehold.
Control it, come on, you can do this! I tell myself.
“Enough Maddie!” Alpha John says, “Serena?”
I blink as I look up, trying to hold the reins on a losing match inside of me. Unable to reply, I stumble to my feet and run from the room, ignoring the snickers t
