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estral Sanctuary stret
bruising at my unyielding posture. "Kiera,
ted the tangled silver pins in my hair, brushing away the dust of the flags
n insult. To an arrogant Alpha-blood, an Om
af, bitch?"
hick fingers hooking into a claw to se
ught could even form. I pivoted on my back heel, shifting my center of gravity by a mere inch
ors. Janice's theatrical tears vanished,
e purple with humiliation
into a feral, muddy amber. His fingernails elongated, thickening into blackened lupine claws
er wolf whispered fierc
I stepped directly into his blind sp
ad dissected the muscular and nervous systems of thousands of werewolves. I di
pt stitched into the lining of my ceremonial cuff for botanical preservation, struck viciously upward-driv
s throat as the localized neurotoxin and physical trauma paralyzed his mo
oor, my right hand seized the heavy cerem
erve us!" an
he fire, I brought the solid oak leg down across the vulnerabl
AC
ruck with a sicke
egenerative biology fought the trauma-trapping his nervous system in a state of paralyzed, rattling shock. His knees turned to w
stubborn to stop-but his consciousness a
thered the sanctum. The gathere
he thrill running through my veins was intoxicating. My inner wolf thgaze flicked towar
er the obsidian parapet. His glacial blue eyes burned with an electrifying, dangerous hunger. He was no
me to bleed hi
e spell. She threw her hands in the air, pointing a quivering fing
ed oak leg. It hit the marbl
"Murder?" I said, my voice slicing through the stillness with surgical clarity. "An heir who cannot su
his beard quivering with fury. "Kiera Weeks! Violence at the sacred al
made the old wolf flinch. "When he struck me to the floor like vermin, where was your sacred law?
flapped open, but
, Kirt's mother, charged onto the dais like an enraged sow, her face con
ved into a feral claw ai
past the bridge of my nose. Before she could recover her balance, I sidestepped her clumsy bulk
tear away the
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