Chapter 86 - Slug

• I brush hard at the tears on my cheeks, raising my chin, my canines elongating inside my mouth even as my lip trembles.
• “Juniper,” Blythe snaps, pointing authoritatively down at the ground like a master calling his dog to heel. “You need to be more reasonable about this. Just because you have money doesn’t mean that we would have access to it – selling our story was going to set us up for life! I didn’t want to take money from your father –“
• “Enough,” I snarl, seeing through all the lies and taking a step towards him. Laila takes her hands from me as she inhales a long anxious breath. Behind me, Faiza, Orion, and Anton are all silent.