Arabella Pov
I sat down with Nicole at the table near the pool table we’d occupied, taking sips of the water bottle they’d gotten for me. I lost to Isaac, not that I was surprised because even a blind kid could tell he was holding back. I told myself it didn’t matter, it wasn’t my fault that while the Nightshade pack was all about having fun and playing games I was forced to be a weapon for my father. I didn’t know how to play these silly games, I didn’t know what partying meant, or how to have fun like this. Or how to have fun at all, really. If someone asked me to show them the exact points on a human’s body to hit with a needle to knock them unconscious, or exactly how to strike someone with a sword to give the deadliest damage, I’d name them all instantly. I could draw a diagram of ho
