Chapter 4: He Cut the Dress Off My Body

Selene put a silver blade to my collarbone and cut my dress off me while the twin Alphas watched. She didn't stop at the fabric. "A slave doesn't get to wear what I wear," she said, and the silk fell in ribbons around my ankles. I stood there half-naked in front of the whole pack. And when I ran to Kael and Draven — when I begged them, sobbing, "I never want to wear red again" — Draven caught my wrist hard enough to crack bone and said the six words that ended me. "You don't have the...