Chapter 85 Love And Fate

• ​The drive back was suffocating. Silence stretched between them, dense and heavy like a physical weight. Elara stared out the window at the passing trees, her reflection a pale, ghostly blur in the glass. She didn't understand why Alpha Fenris had come for her so suddenly. Was he actually there to see Lyra, his future Luna? Despite the way Lyra and Bernard had begged him to stay for dinner, he had plucked Elara from the house as if she were a piece of stray property and dragged her to the car.
• ​She wanted to ask him, but she was too angry…at him, and especially at herself. Bernard’s words were like fragments of glass in her mind. A temporary thing to warm his bed. She was his slave, his breeder, and his toy. That was all she would ever be. The rage boiled over, rushing up her chest until she couldn't breathe.
• ​“Stop the car!” she yelled suddenly.