Ivy’s POV

I remembered them.

Even under the glow of the moon, their faces were ones I could never forget.

My chest tightened as if invisible claws were digging into me, dragging me back to a time I wanted to forget.

Talia and Mirelle. They’d bullied me the day Alpha Lucien took me captive.

The very ones who had made my entire childhood feel like a cage even before I was locked away in one.

Talia’s smirk curved. “Well, well. I thought you’d finally crawled somewhere and died. Alpha ...