Michaela They didn’t even bother to beat me. They knew as well as I did that this time, I had no way out. Now, when Andreas’s subordinates swarmed around me to bind my arms and legs, they used proper steel cable, impossible to gnaw through and too hefty to break. Andreas just watched with that smug, cold smile on his face. He didn’t deign to speak to me, just casually gestured for his subordinates to toss me in the back of a car and turned away. As the black cars rumbled off, carrying me away from my life and my son, I knew my five years of hard-won freedom were over. I’d been captured for good. It was a long journey back to Andreas’s pack territory. My arms and legs were numb in their bindings by the time the squadron of black cars arrived at my old home in the dead of night. Gagg

