Chapter 098
SEBASTIAN
The sound of the door handle turning sent immediate silence through the chamber.
Every captive froze, their conversations dying mid-sentence.
Fear rippled through the room like a physical wave.
Not again. Please, not again.
I pressed myself harder against the wall, trying to make myself as small and invisible as possible.
The boy who'd freed me earlier had taught me this — stay quiet, stay back, don't draw attention.
Maybe the nightwalkers would pass over me and take someone else instead.
The guilt of that thought made my stomach turn, but survival instinct was stronger.
I'd watched fifty wolves get dragged out of this chamber in the hours I'd been here.
Fifty children and young wolves, all taken to be transformed into nightwalkers.
I couldn't help
