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CHAPTER 509
~Zara's POV~
"Oh, and… we know of your little alliance and plans. All I can say is, they'd never see this coming… Besides, we'd be taking them by surprise on the day your powers are taken from you."
Just the thought brought tears to my eyes. Just the idea of the innocents who would die was something that made my insides churn.
This fucking freaking lunatic. What did the werewolves ever do to your kind?
Smiling, Vera turned and walked away. The guards came for me then—silent men in ash-colored robes, their eyes empty, like husks.
They didn't bind me. Why would they need to?
Because I couldn't move unless the magic allowed me to, I was trapped inside my own skin and mind, dragged deeper into the belly of a place that reeked of ancient magic, old bones, and death.
Still, I knew that as much as they thought they could control my body, take my voice, it doesn't change the fact that they hadn't broken me.
