(Rhysette’s POV)
Time stood still as we stared at each other.
My stepfather seemed to have aged rapidly in the space of the one year that I had left him and my former Pack behind, but his purely sadistic eyes had managed to maintain their expression it seemed, and as he looked at me with those beady glares, a hint of admiration shone with them. “I see you’ve grown strong in the space you have been away, Rhysette.” He smirked at me.
My fingers unconsciously clenched at their own will. Every part of my body screamed at me to take him down and make him pay for everything he had done to my mother… for everything he had done to me. But the logic in me held me back.
I wasn’t strong enough.
With Onyx and I combined, perhaps, we could have taken him on, but even I knew that with the reinforc
