ah

lsh

ve they had given me earlier was making my li

een in the recovery ward. The walls wer

el's son as the heir, he had said. Burn the house. If Sarah su

He wanted to make room for his

pressure in the room dropped, his aur

her will. The Alpha Command hijacked her muscles. She picked u

id s

g, and if injected directly into the bloodstream in high doses, it hunts down the wolf nature inside us

My throat was raw fro

. "It will be over soon, Sarah. You won't f

ierced the v

asp

. Molten lead surged up my

cre

anic. She clawed at the inside of my chest, howling in confusion and agony. She tried

n my mind, her voice d

I sobbed

ble, straining against the leather straps. The sound of my own s

hed. He did

ame th

ging the core of my soul and r

in my head, followed by a te

tling, and then she was gone. The connection that had been a w

rp enough to hear a heartbeat across the room, dulled insta

s em

ctor whispered, coll

d down at me. I was sweating, trembling,

uch, which should have sent sparks of the Mate Bond through me-the elec

sically, even if the mo

with fake tenderness. "You're safe now

sed my forehead. It wa

his throat out. But I was just a powerless girl

I showed him that I knew the tru

bbed his lapel. I looked into his eyes wi

e tasting like bile in my mouth.

, arrogant smile. He thought he ha

what he had j