FIFTEEN – NAILEA.
“Did you really kill the Alpha of your pack, Nailea?”
I stared at Estrella, and she stared back, but I was not afraid of giving my answer to her. It was going to be the same as it had always been; nothing but the truth.
“No, I didn’t.”
Estrella breathed a sigh of relief, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell her that I’d had enough of the paste in my system. It felt like someone had disconnected my head from my body and was now swinging it around.
“I’ll make you the antidote,” she said and returned to the mortar to crush up a new paste.
“You should have made the antidote before you gave me the paste to eat in the first place,” I wanted to say to her, but my mouth remained shut.
I settled for placing my head on the table so that I could close my eyes in peace and wait
