Chapter 106 The Price Of Loyalty: A Dark Bargain Renewed

• She came as a ghost, her step as silent as breathing, her presence cold that seemed to penetrate to the very heart of his pack. She stood before him, her eyes bottomless black as always, her lips as cold as ice.
• "You owe me, Thane," she whispered, her voice sweetly tinged with threat. "And this day's payment."
• Thane's ground fell away beneath him. All that it had cost him those years of running, that effort to remain one step ahead of his devils, had been for nothing. He had seen today on the horizon, but there before him, weighed down by the burdens of his conditioned responses, a strangling sense of despair struck him.