Mari – POV
It was a full moon tonight. Even though I couldn’t see it, I could feel it deep within my bones. In the primal urge, my body had to shift into my wolf. Even if I wanted to, it was impossible. They had drugged me with wolfsbane, and kept Stephen confined to the pentagram drawn on the cold stone floor. There wasn’t so much as a window for me to look out at the sky. Footsteps echoed through the dungeon, growing loader and louder.
“Stephen, they are coming,” I whispered through the bars of my cell, the one next to his. “Stephen… my love…” he remained stoic, staring at the stone wall, facing the opposite direction as the one I was in. “Please, speak to me. Say something so I know you are alright. Please.”
“Shut. Up.” He snarled. It was the first time he’d spoken in days. He hadn’t
