Chapter 249

• Monroe was no longer being controlled or possessed. The body fully belonged to the demon now. Up to this point, Monroe might have been able to fight it—perhaps that was even why the challenge had gone unanswered for so long. Echo was in that state now, still conscious beneath the possession. When her body died, she would still have the chance to emerge for the last few moments of her life.
• For Monroe, that time had passed. The old Alpha was well and truly dead. Maybe his soul was still in there somewhere, but he was never emerging again.[A1]
• “Two days,” Hayden said. “The day before the full moon. At noon.”