The rest of the wolves had joined us at the bottom of the stairs. Dagger grunted, “String her up.”

Immediately my attention snapped up to find shackles hanging from the ceiling. This was going to be bad. I just knew it.

“Wait! Let’s just talk about this a minute.”

Dagger chuckled darkly, “Oh, we’re going to talk…and other things.”

I fought with everything I had in me but it was no use. There were just too many of them. After another few minutes, my arms were raised over my head and locked into the hanging shackles. I was barely tall enough to reach the ground that could keep the weight...