Chapter 84 Do You Dare

• Alyson
• I wait until he thinks I've fallen asleep, watching his insurmountable pacing finally cease before he returns to the suite off of his bedroom. I hear the water fill the tub. I work at my wrists, bloody with blisters so that my wrists slide out freely, only at the mercy of a hiss. I look up, hearing the water part at the Alpha settling into his bath, and eye the bedroom door.
• Whatever I had to drink at dinner wasn't just wine. I know by the feeling in my gut now that it was the same poison as I had before, the muting potion that lingers in my blood making it hard for me to sense my wolf, if at all, and I can't tell if there's another outside the door or down the hall. In my woozy state, I must try.