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in the air. I stood in the center of the room, my custom lace wedding gown trailing across the Italian marble

ith a soft smile, expecting my new husband,

ing a scandalously sheer crimson slip, was Brie Forbes-a low-ranking socialite my fam

my voice trembling as my white wolf bristle

be here, Azura? It is his wedding night, after all. A

urself!" I snarled

my dear," he said smoothly. "You Montgomerys are so fiercely loyal. I needed a flawless excuse to gather every single one of your elite vanguard guards in one place.

utomatic gunfire erupted from the courtyard outside. The screams of my packmates

, lunging toward

e of the mahogany vanity. The impact shattered the mirror, sending shards of glass raining down on my pristine wedding gown. A sharp, agonizing pain p

, the sharp stench of iron, burning

wn!" a merce

k, driving the air straight out of my lungs. My cheek

ashing against the crushing weight of t

to break through the surface. She howled in agony, but the bones

k cuffs of solid, unrefined si

smoke. It smelled like roasting pork and charred nerves. The agony was blinding, an electric fire running up my forearms, paralyzing the d

ghting, l

e burning doorway. He wore an immaculate bespoke Charcoal suit, completely untouched by the massacre he had orchestrated across our sevent

elves in a frantic, animalistic rhythm. They hadn't even bothered to close the curtains. As I stirred, Brie locked eyes with me over

Slowly, deliberately, he lifted his right foot and set the

er blown through his ribcage by a black-market silver heavy cannon.

depths of my soul, scraping my vocal cords raw. "He was t

sole gave a sickening crunch. "A dead Alpha is just fertilizer, Azura. Now, tell me wh

ctly across the pristine polish of his left shoe.

ion cracked. A vein

epped into the circle of emergency lights, swaying her hips with practiced elegance. Her platinum blonde curls w

encrusted fingers digging brutally

isfaction as she forced my face upward. "The proud princess of t

r," I whispered th

lap that whipped my head sideways. The ring on her index finger

ce shaking with long-suppressed jealousy. "You and y

tionless. He reached inside his tailored breast pocket and pulled out

cous, shimmering liquid c

loor. Cold dread washed over me,

arket chemists to permanently destroy the werewolf healing factor, diss

rashing wildly. "No, k

ciful for a Montgomer

. Baron stepped forward, drove his thumb into the hollow of my collarbone to e

d the plu

i

ad through my jugular like liquid lightning, searing every vein, artery, and nerve ending it touched. My back arched un

voice, once a thundering presence of ancient authority, faded into a

east was g

rs scrape whatever is left off the pavement. Oh, and broadcast the message to the lower districts: The Montgomery family h

ha," the larger m

the shattered floorboards. My limp legs trailed behind like dead

tion terrace. One hundred and twenty stories above Apex Metro, the wind screamed like a choru

Brie laughed from the doorway, wra

ced glass railing, dangling me by the fr

turning every breath into a ragged gasp. But right against my ribs, beneath the inner l

of the Moo

thing an hour before the breach. The ancient stone hummed against my freezing skin, pouring a microscopic thread of

move left.

left in my shredded muscles, I threw

ac

artilage shattered beneath the impact. The man howled in shoc

ion was al

k toward the ledge, I threw my we

ped through my shirt fabric

zed my broken body. The burning tower shr

of Apex Metro, my eyes remained locked on

ns and the roaring wind, a frantic

breach! Assassin

was abrupt