This was the first time Roland found himself completely losing it. His claws emerged and he was ready to rip her heart out of her chest.

Anger blinded him and Zuri’s taunts only fueled it further.

The fact that Zuri knew she was tempting death didn’t deter her. Feeling this pain, instead of numbness, was not bad either.

Eerie laughter still came out of her lips and when she saw her father’s claws emerge, she looked him in the eyes. She felt fury radiate off of him in waves and remembered the father that she once had in the past. The father that braided her hair. The father that took...