Kram
composure was a greater insult than any screaming m
nd brittle. "A filthy wolfless. Marrying into the Contreras fa
an to sift through the dresses, my movements unhurried. As i
sal was more than
er nails dug into my skin. "I'
ou know why Father agreed so easily? The Contreras family paid a fortune! Your
conspiratorial hiss. "And Father already knows Demetri is dying. The silver poison is in his bones. The healers say h
e her the satisfac
ughly, shouting in my face, "Why aren't you crying? You think you're still the precious eldes
as the
ements
my eyes was gone. In its place, a fire blazed, so
my gaze and her hand flew from
process what was
vice around her throat. With a surge of overwhelming strength
um
acked against the surface, and a strangled gasp esc
n for twenty years was now a stranger's mask, a harbinger from
rce of my grip, but my expression was
raw, cold rasp, like a blade scraped
. She clawed frantically at my wrist, her throat makin
y grip just enough to cut off her patheti
her face. She began to beat a weak tattoo against the war
oled the inferno in my chest. Killing h
eased
ched her throat, coughing and retching, desperately sucking in air. Snot and tears smeared he
y own expression on
" I said.
look at me again. She stumbled to the door, fumbling with the handle. Just be
she choked out, the
lips. It sent a visibl
and fled, her footsteps
ainst the wall, my body trembling slightly from the rush of adrenal
tasted violence
only the
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