te Coo
ower lip. The metallic warmth of fresh blood welled up, trickling down my chin. Instead of striking me, Cooper
smooth as poison. "Even though your body has been sta
ver the raised, blackened scar that snaked across my skin-a wou
t inner wolf, I will still treat you as before," Cooper murmured, his tone turning venomously swe
twist away, his hand clamped around my jaw, forcing my bloody teeth apn. Ground silver-the one lethal bane capable of destroying a werew
ripping the fine fabric, but Cooper pinned
st his chest. "Do not be afraid. Your husband will stay right here with you. Do you know, from the first moment I saw
ld, quiet sigh
er blade, and your wolf went dormant, forcing the Hewitt heir, Firman, to
belly and my soul at the same time. The silver poison raced through my veins like boiling acid, dissolv
dyeing the bedding dark crimson. My pup... Deep within my consciousness, my fragile inner wolf let out one last despa
ips into a relieved, sickening smile and gathered me tighte
eer hatred, I drove both hands against his ches
sound tearing ragged from
lood mixed with silver residue sprayed from my lips. My strength
y eyes, I let out a wet, rattling laugh. I should have known. Now that he had used my body to frame Arther and secur
hrough the red froth bubbling in my throat, glaring into his widen
eartbeat stuttered to a halt, the cold smugness on
p shoulders. "I didn't mean to-it wasn't mean
or and roaring wildly into the courtyard for a
nd a soul whose flesh had been shredded by pure silver. The cold seeped into
her of the Moon Goddess, I did not vanish into the void; instead, I floa
heart had been torn in two. My ghostly stomach churned with pure disgust. He was the butcher who had pou
from the vaulted stone pillars, and hundreds of white beeswax candles illuminated the bower of pale winter roses. Cooper held a grand Wake that
ne catafalque. My lifeless body lay encased within a carved limestone sarcophagus fitted with a heavy frost-glass viewing lid. Through
stone hall in hollow, echoing silence. Dying with such monstrous grievances
he ambient air grew impossibly heavy, thrumming with the cru
ression aura had descended over the grounds like an iron bell-an apex predator's presence so terrifyin
doors parted w
the stormy shadows into the hall, radiating the lethal Alph
instant he caught that terrifying scent, his bloodshot eyes bulged with venomous shoc
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