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crashing to the ground.
     
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    It was hours before I regained consciousness. Ignoring the pounding in my head, I fought through the haze of grogginess and slowly opened my eyes. My vision was filled with a blinding, orange light, and I focused on the crackle of the roaring fire. As my eyes adjusted to the light, I realized that I was alone in a dimly-lit cave.
     
    Well, not alone per se . I could barely make out several forms further up, towards the mouth of the small cavern. Their voices were trailing down towards me, and while I couldn’t distinguish the words, I knew that they were speaking animatedly.
     
    Trying to move my arms, it dawned on me that I was tied up, slumped with my back against the wall. Thinking quickly, I started to maneuver myself against the wall, reaching down to try and withdraw the knife that was always concealed in one of my boots — sheathed and ready for moments like this.
     
    Fuck! It’s gone!
     
    “It looks like the little shifter traitor is awake now,” I heard. Struggling to maintain my composure, I glanced up angrily at my captors, who were now just on the other side of the fire. There were four of them — all rugged, shirtless, and gazing upon me with an odd spectrum of curiosity and tranquil fury.
     
    “I’m not like you. I’m not like any of you!” I practically spat in a venomous rage. “Don’t you dare compare yourselves to me.”
     
    “You can try to deny your true nature,” one of them spoke, stepping closer, “but you can never bury it. It will always loom in the darkness, waiting for you.”
     
    “Shut up!” I growled. “You don’t know what you’re fucking talking about!”
     
    “Do I not, Hunter?”
     
    My lips went silent, and I glowered in fury.
     
    “That’s right…we know exactly who you are.” This one was clearly the alpha among them, speaking for the rest. They nodded quietly behind him, their piercing green eyes all locked onto my own. “You are the most dangerous of the entire order, for you are the shifter who turned on the rest. The one who tracks and murders her own kind. We have known about you for a long time…and we prepared ourselves for the day that you would come, Lira.”
     
    “You don’t have the right to speak that name. Let me go.”
     
    “Why did you betray us all, Lira?” The alpha asked calmly, his animal side placated for now. “What drove you to dedicate your life to exterminating the rest of us?”
     
    I stopped struggling against the bindings. The vines were strong, full of life even after their removal, and I had been stripped of any blades within grasp. Biding my time, I considered the options and quickly decided to play their little game.
     
    “My parents,” I answered. “Murdered by shifters.”
     
    “You know that isn’t true,” he answered. “Every shifter in North America knows of Erek…of his valiance, and his dedication to protecting his town. Your father was the greatest shifter among our entire kind, and what happened to you was a tragedy…but we do not murder our own kind.”
     
    Silence filled the air as I restrained my anger.
     
    “Not until you came along, that is.”
     
    “I don’t know who the fuck you think you are, but you have no idea what happened. You weren’t there. I WAS. And I saw them, both of them…draped across the forest floor, dripping in their own blood…shifters standing above them…”
     
    I tried to bite back my tears, but the sorry little bastards denied me my composure. Humiliatingly, I began to sob in front of them, my shoulders bobbing with my cries.
     
    “ You weren’t there! You can’t possibly defend your filthy, backstabbing kind when you didn’t see them, murdered by their…their own…”
     
    The pack averted their gaze, but their alpha kept his unwavering stare on me as I descended into a fresh fury of tears.
     
    “But you don’t understand…I