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sley
I swirled the amber liquid in my crystal glass, my Lycan senses assaulted by
sickening, obsessive hunger. She thought she could play games. She thought my political marriage to that
ass to my lips
aneous. Liquid fire tore
hijacked my nervous system. My Lycan healing, usually instantaneous, slammed into a brick wall of agon
uckled. Through the sensory static and the sudden, terrifying loss of motor control, I cau
it would be a political disaster. I stumbled backward, the massive champagne tower
ever
rmers. The grand crystal chandeliers above us shattered into darkness. Plunged into a sudden, pitch-b
fitting uniform, a low-pulled cap, and a black face mask hauled me upright. I flared my nostrils, desperate to identify
dered, low and del
ors, swallowed by the shadows of the service area. My limbs were lead. Rage thras
on the keypad. My blurred mind barely registered the numbers, but a chi
d me across the black marble floor of my bathroom and sh
d blocks of ice s
ed in my veins, but the extreme cold fought back the neurotoxin, giving me a fracti
d for the mask, desperate to rip it off and expose
spond! Whe
nd-Link, a psychic sledgehammer that shattered
g away in my iron grip. For a fraction of a second, the harsh bathroom light illuminated the pale skin of her
igure bolted through the glass doors, disappea
m. I looked down at my hand. Resting in my palm was a single, hand-forged obsidian cufflink, tor
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