Animal Instinct by Noelle N

Author:Noelle N
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, urban fantasy, young adult, werewolf, new adult
Publisher: Noelle N

Malthus was in the same room. I could hear the screams of the girl he was torturing. I could hear him laughing. And I wanted to leave but couldn't, because Claudius was bolting the door shut. He wouldn't let me leave. He swore that this was how a young boy became a man. A man with Alpha-blood running through his veins, a man with power, a man with a legacy. His legacy.

This revelation was more than he'd ever written before, but it shed light on a matter that had always remained dark all this while. If I'd thought that finding out about werewolves was like discovering a new world, this was far worse. It was like stepping into a dystopian one, and Jed was the sole survivor in such a twisted legacy.

I was once terrified of Malthus Trevino, back when I'd first saw the room with dead women. And I had every reason to be. But this terrified me more. Because Claudius Trevino made monsters in his own image.

And what happened when you didn't want to be made into one of the monsters?

Suddenly, I knew, and then I wasn't just terrified. All the memories came rushing back, all the pieces just slotted back into place, one after another. Why Jed never spoke. Why Jed lived in isolation. Why Jed avoided physical contact.

They broke him.

"Claudius locked you in," I murmured unsteadily, lifting my eyes to meet Jed's. He was watching me intently and he was frighteningly calm, as if the past no longer affected him anymore. Either that or he was numbed to it all and that alone was haunting. "He locked you in and – your brother was there? And he didn't let you out, did he?"

Slowly, he shook his head. But it was absolutely impossible to miss the way a shiver wracked through him, a flicker of pain glimpsing his eyes before it was all gone in a flash. My breath caught in my throat and it felt like a different kind of heartbreak altogether, because he wasn't breaking my heart. No, it was more along the lines of feeling some inexplicable form of pain for him. For all the things he'd had to go through, alone, and he was just sixteen and couldn't do anything to stop it from happening.

"So that's why you killed him," I breathed, the last piece finally clicking back into place. "That's why you wanted to take over Titan."

Jed nodded, bracing one arm on the table as he continued to write:

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