Montgo

inch, keeping the silver needle pressed firm

sapphire locket hammered against her silk dre

How dare a lowly peasant threaten me with silve

edle pierced her skin, and a bead of bri

oked whimper, tremb

, my voice cold and steady. "By ancient werewolf law, I am the

ted their claws and lowered the

pping me, a glint of dark amusement flashed in his dark-gold eyes as his

his madwoman!" Vivian sobbed, tears smearin

poke, his voice

. Take your peo

es widened

this ugly wolfless monste

old pupils darkened, and the terrifying spiritual Domin

ight. Crushed by the bloodline fear, Vivian's knees

dle back and lo

t o

orward, dragged the weeping Vivian off th

ide. Bending down, I picked up my silver needles one by one and

l raised on a remote farm," Andrae said fro

ast needle, I ke

self alive on a remote farm, you end

my coat, walked to his wheelchair, and wiped the black

h under his nose. "Ordinary battle wounds don't

ck stain, his fingers ti

sitting in the marrow f

ily tonic," I said, looking straight into his eyes. "Whoever did it

ce of his second brother, Boyce-the royal apothecary who brewed his tonics-had unmistakably surfaced in his suspicions. A

eath, he snapped h

n sight and drew it out with

, meeting his glare

nd the only healer who c

than a foot. His hot breath brushed my cheek as he inhaled de

ding too ma

" I stepped back, breaking the dangerous proximity. "Your veins were shaken tonight. Fo

ver my head, I turned a

Carli

t hiding beneath that foul herb mud still lingered at the tip o

st the armrest and looked towa

n, com

peries and dropped to one knee. Declan Hayes, my Beta and

here,

lf-head signet ring on my finger. "Investigate everything

o you suspect she is an ass

through the silver poison Boyce hid for three years in a single glance," I sai

clan melted back