lia
wed the whole sho
he carriage door, and I watched his face drain - the smirk
ctually stumbled back a step, drop
aist-deep in the shallows - alive, dripping, staring straight at her - the innocent
d her feathered fan in the mud. "How does a wolfles
rift across every stunned aristocrat, cold enough to
what pride always
t drown, so drag yourself out this instant! Do you have any idea what
man who had watched m
atitude as I once would have, I treaded water
e lake like a sharp blade. "Lord Tate, my name is
mid wolfless orphan, insulting the
ed on the silver hilt of his broadswor
e like an actress hearing her cue. "The freezing cold must have damaged her mind! Aurelia,
almost lau
the betrothed who watched me sink beneath the waves without lifting a f
ntimacy on that bank had gone far beyond what cous
back as if the touch burned. "Aurelia! How can y
dive back down and fetch the torn silk caught under your
hands flew b
told forty witnesses ever
through his boots. But men like him never pa
e bellowed over the rising murmur. "Guards! Subdue th
ds started unbuckling t
lake, to the opposite bank. Beyond a towering black-iron fence lay the royal restricted grounds, and behind
arned who sat in that
oded Lycan who held more absolute power than the Alpha King himsel
dger would never, e
n clicked together in
the eye, slowly raised my ri
a single, gracef
lief. Somewhere in the crowd,
led my lun
No mercy.
water, toward the forbidden imperial pavilion and Jacoby-while
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