VALERIA

My brain finally connected with reality, and it told me I was lying on my side on a bed.

Not chained. Not imprisoned. Not bound. And definitely very much alive.

I felt an incredible vitality surging inside me, healing, repairing my wounds.

Confused, I opened my eyes halfway, staring at an old wooden wall.

I know this wallpaper—it's from the inn where we were staying, in that… pack where I was kidnapped and taken to those vampires who sold me as a slave, and then… then the Lycan King res