Chapter 137: The Key and the Shadow
Holly's boots crunched softly on the pathway as she walked. Her breath misted in the moonlight. The festival drums had long since faded behind her, but she could still feel the rhythm in her chest, like a distant heartbeat she wanted to silence. Her hands were tucked deep into her cloak pockets, fingers curling tight around the resolve she'd spent all evening building.
She wasn't doing this out of spite, she told herself. It wasn't jealousy...not really. It was concern. Concern for the pack. For Orion. For the lives that woman, Sophia, might destroy if she was what Holly suspected she was.
'She's a demon,' Holly thought grimly, 'and it's my duty to expose her before she brings ruin here, to my pack.'
