The pack members who'd once viewed her with curiosity or sympathy now looked at her with suspicion and disgust. When she was allowed out of her cell for brief walks in the courtyard, wolves would cross to the other side of the path to avoid her. Children were hurried away when she appeared. The whispers followed her everywhere.
"I heard she killed twelve wolves with her bare hands and felt nothing."
"My cousin said she seduced all four brothers in a single night using witch potions."
"They say Marcus Wells trained her to be an assassin, and now she's working her way through the Blackwood family."
It was beautiful to watch. Maya's isolation became complete as the pack turned against her. Even the servants who brought her meals began to look at her with fear and revulsion.
But the real
