CYRUS Words couldn’t explain the satisfaction that filled me when I saw the general’s eyes flare open in fear when he saw who I really was. What I really was. I broke out of the shackles holding me, flexing my hands and popping my neck. My muscles filled out, all the weight I had lost in the past week coming back. It was a beautiful feeling when a lykae let their beast take control. However, it was an indescribable one when it happened while being under direct moonlight. There was nothing quite like it. It was bliss. The two men who had escorted me from my cell into this room immediately drew their weapons—guns—and aimed them at me. I was charged and more powerful than I had been in a long time, but bullets travelled fast and two touched me before I launched at them. Two dead

