Chapter 45 : The Claw of Erasure II
Ruby's POV
The words hit me like claws to the chest. The ache I’d been trying to hold down twisted into something sharp and unbearable.
“I saw it…” I finally said, my voice trembling as the memories clawed their way back. “In the Stoneheart Pack. They were using it—to control rogue wolves. Forcing them to obey, to fight for them.” My throat tightened. Just saying it out loud made it real again. The screams. The glassy, hollow eyes of wolves who didn’t even remember their own names.
A cold wave of realization swept over me. I had been walking among monsters—and I hadn’t even known how close I was to being one of their victims.
The room fell silent. Even the fire crackling in the hearth seemed to dim, as if the flames themselves were holding their b
