~~ANIKA VALERION~~

~~THE SHADOW PACK~~

It was hard to swallow a routine I never signed up for.

Mornings that once kicked off with the creak of Nana’s door and her strict orders to choke down my pills now started with silk on my skin. Servants tiptoed around me, treating me like spun glass.

I still hauled around too many unanswered questions about my mother, the massacre, the dark force that drained Nana’s life, and the nightmare that left me gasping in the tub.

But those had to take a backseat.

Today, I was expected to stand before the Council and officially introduce myself as the returned Heiress alongside my father....