Hades’ Cursed Luna Novel – tore through the pack outskirts, my heart beating out of my chest. The glow of streetlights barely visible beyond the pack’s borders. The foliage scratched at my body as I ran deeper into the trees, away from the concrete jungle, but I knew that if they caught me, I was as good as dead. “Let me take over,” my wolf urged. “They will kill you.” But I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t give my wolf complete control.
Could I even call it a wolf? It was because of it that I was being hunted like an animal. I tore recklessly at the red ball gown I was wearing, the expensive fabric catching on tree branches. But I got distracted and tripped on a tree root, flying forward and falling on my face. Pain tore through my already exhausted body. I forced myself up, glancing back. But it was too late. They had already come too close, and my ankle twisted painfully during the fall. I couldn’t run. “The Alpha said we must find her.
She couldn’t have gone far,” one of the Gammas tasked with capturing me said to his subordinates. I pressed my back against a tree, hiding in the shadows cast by the moon filtering through the towering buildings in the distance, my heart pounding like a drum in my chest. I tried to hold my breath so they couldn’t find me. They could use their wolves’ senses to track me. “Let me save you,” my wolf insisted. “You can escape.” But no matter how tempting it was, I couldn’t do it.
My wolf was the enemy; it was the reason the Alpha wanted me dead. James’s face flashed in my mind, his soft brown eyes filled with love. He would be worried. I only hoped that he would not be implicated in this. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if it happened. Soon, silence fell over the woods, but I could hear the distant sounds of sirens from the pack behind me. I knew the Gammas were changing tactics. “Eve?” The captain called for me. “The Alpha will be merciful if you just follow us back.” “Lies,” my wolf gr