ey Oliv
houlder, her heavy nails digging t
bing, paralyzed girl who wo
ifted forward, my body c
hick wrist with my left hand, and drove the heel of my rig
ac
breaking echoed louder than the tor
w panes. Her massive bulk buckled under the shock of the compound fracture,
, but her brawler instincts kicked in. She raised a
olfles
t her finis
driving a front kick with the steel-toed tip of my worn leath
sound tore t
, her manicured fingers clawing at her throat.
possible angle. She crashed onto on
yanked her head down, and brought my kne
ded in a spray
and she dropped face-first onto the ston
fell de
er the hilts of their iron broadswords, their eyes wide with sh
, rolling my shoulders t
dominance of an Alpha wolf-it was the pure, concentrated killing intent
t skirt catching on the door sill. Her roun
" she stammered, raising her trembli
her, step by d
tirely soundless aga
made the hair on the guards' arms stand on end. "Did you bring the entire hous
ainst the doorframe. "The Crown Prince is already entering the gates! When
ed my head, letting a ghos
shod boots echoed from the paved courtyard outside, ac
ince Jovanni Burnett!" a herald's vo
Gertrude's sweating face. She looked at me
d under her breath, hastily rearranging her
waste a
shed from my posture
y knees hit the floor with a painful smack. I buried my face in my trembling hands, f
ist on the floor, stared at my sudden transformation with
pped across the threshold, flanked
n impeccably tailored crimson doublet, and amber
ni Bu
he man who had treated my predecessor like dir
from the second branch, dressed in an extravagant sil
ating pressure of a royal Alpha command. "You sent word that my honor was be
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