Chapter 324

SILVIA "Go ahead," I interrupted, my wolf fully visible now. "Hurt him. Torture him. Kill him if you're brave enough. But understand this: you're not dealing with a desperate prisoner trying to protect her family. You're dealing with someone who's done far worse than anything you're threatening. Someone who's burned nests and slaughtered enemies and made entire supernatural factions afraid to speak the Blackwood name." I pulled against the chains, feeling them strain. Not enough to break—not yet—but enough to make my point. "I am Silvia Blackwood. The Blood Luna. And if you think forty years of domestication has made me soft, has made me forget how to be the monster you're so afraid of—you are catastrophically wrong." The cell door clanged open and more figures poured in—nightwalkers and werewitches, enough to restrain me properly. They forced me back down, added more chains, tightened the restraints until I could barely move. But I kept snarling, kept fighting, kept making sure they u