nik

ute ice in my veins. The world around me seemed to stop spinning, le

the embankment. She k

the deepest depths of my chest. My inner wolf howled, a primal, deafening scream of fury, clawing at my mind and demand

was lying unconscious on the operating table. In the quiet moments of the night, when Cleo was asleep beside me, I had caught myself wondering if I was a cold-blooded monster for kill

orated into thin air, replaced

r the baby on purpose? Just for her so-called freedo

zzard, if she had just stayed put in the study and obediently let the doctor do the procedure as I commanded, none of this messy, tragic situation would have h

rs. If I had stayed outside that door for one more second, I would have lost co

sk with explosive force. The wood groaned and cracked under the sheer impact of my

ed into the room, her face pale with

ha fury. I had finally found the perfect, undeniable excuse to discard her completely, without a single shred of remorse.

... throw her out? But Alpha, there is a massive blizzard raging ou

my aura pressing down on her until she gasped fo

ing her head in submission.

k member, a brutish, heavily-built woman named Brenda Tucker. I knew Brenda well. She had always harbored a deep, ugly jealousy toward

the manor's security monitors, watching the

her. Brenda grabbed Aria by her long silver hair and yanked her violently from the hospital bed. Aria was wearing nothing but a thin,

or help her. They all knew this was the absolute command of the Alpha King. I watched the image of Aria's pa

I thought, my lips curling into a cruel sneer. Then you will le

body into the freezing, howling snowstorm outside. The blizzard was a screaming vortex of wind and ice. Aria

manor closed shut behind h

monitor, the sc

ssica whispered from the corner of

d be to dirty my soil," I laughe

at alone in the quiet study, the tearing void in my soul only seemed to grow wider and mor

m this moment on, your pathetic life and your inev

ged the traitor from my life. But my im