Chapter 5

The loud slam of the door still buzzed in the room, the echo ringing in my ears and sending a jolt down my spine.

Everything went still. The silence was thick, almost suffocating.

Then I noticed Luna, curled beside my suitcase, barely a foot from my bare feet.

Under the dim light, her scales shimmered with a cold, silvery sheen. Her slender tongue flicked in and out, soundless and slow, her gaze locked with such eerie intensity it made my skin crawl.

Every hair on my body stood on end.

The fear I'd shoved aside earlier, when Lucien forced me…