se

ver the guest suite floo

and pulled on a fitted, dark athletic top and leg

ked guest door and stepped

owed my footsteps as I move

re his staff arrived, he always spent the dawn hour

arble pillar, peering thr

ith his back to me, the mornin

rp sliced through the air as the peri

balustrade with supernatural agility,

mbat knives in their hands gleamed with the un

h, pressing my back aga

zed triangle, silver blades aimed direct

re the steel pierced his collar,

ust dodge-h

he morning air as a blur of

directly behind the

tirely in his human form, yet his speed surpa

of his bare hand, he snapp

ack echoed acros

d, their eyes wide with sheer panic as

devastating roundhouse kick that struck

crashing through the glass railing and plunging

the throat with one hand, lifting th

my mouth, my heart poundin

were not

had just displayed belon

erately at Blaine's forearm, his

pletely molten gold, s

he crushed the man's windpipe and toss

y turned

d directly onto the marb

ing ozone of his Lycan aura flooded the ter

measured, heavy strides on t

inch away, his massive f

His voice sounded

t up into his gl

ut for fresh air and hea

y jawline and forcing my head back until my

of cedar and fresh kill. "Everyone who knows

ry, but my voice

iet, useless Wolfless wife who knows how to hold he

ers easing their crushing grip just enough to b

ombat boots pounding up the

n a seamless blur, and dropped into his whe

shed out with a squad of armed gu

each!" Caleb dropped to one knee,

instantly weak and hoarse, perfectly mimicking an

d immediately t

is sharp eyes lingering on my pa

o hide the slight tremor in my fingers. "The A

lchair past me, his ga

carrying only to my ears: "Keep your mouth s