Chapter 179: Monster’s Mercy

Elira

Moonlight dripped through the dense canopy, streaking Liora’s face with silver and shadow. Her eyes gleamed intensely like a predator’s—wild, feral, and utterly empty—her lips twisting into something that looked almost human, but was not quite. She was never going to change. She was the indelible stain on every pack that had ever drawn breath, the chaotic disaster that always came wrapped in false beauty.

She circled me slowly, deliberately dragging ...