Chapter 14: I'm Not Elara Anymore

They took me anyway. Of course they did. They were Alphas; taking is what they know. I woke in my old room in the Blackthorn house — restored exactly as it had been, down to the blue curtains — with Kael and Draven kneeling on either side of the bed like men at an altar. "You're awake." Draven's fingers closed over mine. "Elara. Thank the Goddess." "Look," Kael said quickly, gesturing at the room, desperate, boyish. "We rebuilt it. Everything the way you liked it." My stomach turned...