las

beneath me, a kingdom of steel and concrete that bowed to my will. But rig

my obsidian desk. The wood groaned, splinte

guttural vibration that rattled my ribcage. "He cornered our mate. He

own temper was fraying. "Death is too easy for a

ut. He was a mountain of a man, scarred and lethal, yet he approached my desk with the caution one woul

id, my voice d

bed. The manager has been debriefed and compensated for his silence. As for Braydon Hyde... my men escorted him off the premises. He ha

ratic execution.

growled, pacing in

deep indentations of my fingers. "But if he steps within ten feet of her

s expression gri

n here," I or

strategist to Vance's brute force, a man of logic and numbers. He

he door,

d to face them. "The arrangement

Binding Protection Contract?

was never just a contract. It was a placeholder." I turned back, pinning them with a stare that brooke

mouth opened, then closed. Vance looked

iage? To a wolfless girl from a fallen pack? The Co

pon against the Hyde Pack. Braydon thinks he can intimidate a helple

is was a masterstroke of political chess, a way to humi

smissed them. "She is to be treated

behind them, the mask of the

background wasn't a stock image or a corporate logo.

highlights in her hair. She looked so alive. So free. I had been in my car, watching her from the shadows

a

ce on the scree

ess without being dragged into the bloody darkness of my world. But when her parents d

e settling into a possessive hum.

had left on the side table, drew my atten

y alert f

S ATTEMPT: MARRIAG

HYDE P

S: BL

raydon was frantic. He was tearing through the digital world,

records so deep that even the Council co

el smile cu

the empty room. "You're not fighti

s waiting for dinner, and I had a role to play. For now