Outwitted

d in the Living World was

rec

e gut, combined with two

earing. My insides shriveled at the intensity of his gaze, los

al again?" The words

ogy?" he

tarted with being sacrificed to Fenrir, skipped over the part where I fell in lov

eady pictur

soul from my body-the

he pocket of Hell, and through t

n eternity tied to that rock w

ned thick with the weight of his animosity. It snaked around my lungs, crushing them until I struggled

atural Council, Mum's shouts, and the chanting of Alpha Gunda

xiety around my chest loosened. He turned to Alpha Gundahar's

r magic, your pack and your authorit

r declare himself as the Norse alp

into the dead alpha's chest, cracking bones with

t and staggered away, my back

roar. Blood poured from the organ's thick arteries and splattered o

und the flesh over my heart. He was about to

loody organ to his m

was what he had wanted me to do to Beow

m into focus. All the monarchs had left their high podium to

arm around her shoulders and pulled her close. From the way an oversized white robe hung from her b

ppening?" he snapped at Fenrir. "Why have you

t at King Hades, only for it to splatter again

oad chest. "Interesting choice of words," he drawled. "Betray

lm on his chest and roared,

or me-the actual Shifter Queen. The same Shifter Queen who left Fenrir in a poc

're mistaken, Norse Alpha. The only way to become the

g?" King Hades hiss

ection. "Fenrir of the Norsemen, if you wish to be one of us, you m

He sounded like getting crowned was a worse fate than my murder. If I eve

gaze roving up and down my body before lingering o

s brows raised. "Did you real

struggled within her bonds, trying to break free from the enchantment the shamans had placed to stop her fr

with Fenr

odd