SHE'D BEEN FULL OF the usual conflicting emotions and feelings that followed on the heels of a killing and had found the Beast of Gévaudan more difficult than her other encounters. On the one hand, her blood and every single molecule of her being still vibrated with the power she’d absorbed. She'd been terrified at how close she'd come to accepting the call of the darkness, knowing that it was the furthest she’d travelled toward that path.
Even now, she wondered if the only reason she'd regained her willpower was because at the exact moment she’d felt the most out of control, she’d seen Vanessa's pale face watching her. It was the first time she hadn't thought of her loved ones waiting for her after death, and Emma Jane was certain that if Vanessa hadn’t been in her life, she would've fal
