len

be a brief distraction, but instead, the Moon Goddess had played a sick, twisted joke on me. My Fated Mate

now, my Inner Wolf, Ragnarok, was tearing at the edges o

the air

heavy oak doors. Moonlit lil

agnarok roared, his possessive fury echoing so viol

nside my

ut a way to infiltrate my territory, using the one weakness I couldn't ignore. I shoved the study do

ess steel, smelling faintly of bleach. But standing in the center of

erware rattle. The fact that Caleb had deposited her in the secured bedroom

hin up. "I... I got out myself. I was hungry," she stammered, her

ocking lie on her lips. A

lamped around her slender throat, lifting her off her f

acing my voice with the heavy, suffoca

her eyes remained clear, filled only with panic and pain. The command bou

face. She inhaled sharply, recognizing the scent of pine needles and cold

oked out, her voice trembling. "But

ced through my control

ter my enemies, exposed to a wolfless girl who had just waltzed into my home. The threat level i

apsed onto the marble f

ped through the `Mind-L

lized in the doorway, their eyes darting be

. Let the patrol decide he

enturies of survival demanded her silence. Seraphina screamed as Jax and

d of any mercy. "If you survive until sun

chen. Her terrified screams faded down the cor

in in my chest, Caleb burst into the kitch

Caleb shouted, risking my wrath as he stepped directly i

the Stonehaven Pack. At the bottom, stamped i

nation plot. It was my mother, orchestrating my life from h

my veins. I crushed the parchmen

oared, the Lycan aura exploding from me, cracking the marbl

line, Kaelen! She tho

ng. She was Aidan's leftovers. She knew I was

window toward the dark tree line of the fortress grounds.