Chapter 140
Annalise
I didn’t hesitate.
The moment Lucien’s words left his lips, I ran.
No more wasted time. No more doubts. My mates were in the Underworld. They had been taken, stolen from me, and I didn’t know why or how.
And honestly? I didn’t care.
I would get them back.
The moment I reached the edge of the trees, I shifted. The pain of my transformation was nothing compared to the burning fury inside me, the desperation that pulsed like a second heartbeat. My bones snapped, reshaped, fur sprouted along my limbs, and my senses expanded, sharpening until the world became clearer, louder, more vivid.
Then I sprinted.
Wind howled in my ears, whipping through my fur as my paws pounded against the forest floor. My breaths came in steady bursts, my lungs expanding, my heart hammeri
