Chapter 10: One Hundred Lashes

I woke chained to a black pillar with a firepit burning under my feet. Not a dream. Iron at my wrists, hauled up over my head. Wet hair. A room I'd never seen — a punishment hall from the old days, when Alphas still hanged their own. Two men in black masks walked toward me, uncoiling whips that crackled with pale blue light. Silver-lash. Enchanted. The kind that cauterizes as it cuts. "Who are you?" I screamed. "Let me go! LET ME GO!" "You defied your Alpha," the first one said, bored....