that Dante had fortified pack security, setti

ay. Crystal snorts "Crystal

know i

if he wants to get in. I fidget with my hairpin, looking out my windo

ug m

g like he has not just gone past a whole army of guards. Werewolf

ece suit and black handmade leather loafers. T

into the room. Immediately, noise fi

d the alpha's mating ceremony. Who dared to

needed that much time to incapacitate more than thirty mature warrior

stiffens, his f

re, Blackthorn?" He as

ere we both stood, obviously unbothered by the threat

im. "While I still feel gener

es a lopsi

usional, are you? What make

to advance behi

in him to the wall," Lucien says dryly.

the guard and

l the guards?" Dante ask

chalantly. "That

nce again after murdering my wife,

d for her murder,

lenge you for the le

s silent. So silent I can

hallenging Dante to a duel could only lea

I can almost see the calcu

l of strength. Know how much he has improved over the y

us of you." Dante sneered.

st walk in here and

old timepiece on his wrist and letting

eryone has lost whatever trust they once had in

's words. The veins on his neck stand out angrily a

favor. He was getting blinded by his anger, but Lucien was

pulsive,

his face thickening to

shift completely and accept the challenge. He looks at me and sneers,

rowl as I straigh

ok, they have both shifted to their wo

h other in read

and lunging at each other. What had been

es and chairs and décor crashing around them. It is fierce and wild,

ver, Lucien seems to toy with Dante as one would a

is a high

oled or harbors any illusions about this. T

dy weak figure. I can see the motion of Dante breathing and I hold my breat

s me straight in the eyes. I

rm on the floor. With his jaw, he picks Dante up by the n

y throat and threatening to bring up

nd slams him down with

t myself but everyone in attendance. Lucien doe

him, right? Do it an

, he sinks his teeth into Dante's wolf's neck, crushing down slowl

splattered against the floors and walls and Lucie

y, I hear it clea