Page 148 of Taken by the Alpha King

Our power.

And in all of those years, we never thought to tap that power for ourselves. Because we were too vain and lazy, too blinded by our belief that our arrangement with the thralls was equally beneficial, while secretly believing we were in control.

“We’ll be back,” Nathan says again, and I wonder who he’s trying to convince.

Because as we pull out of the gates, as the spires disappear from view, I say goodbye to Aconitum Hall in the hopes that we never return.