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stone pillar with a deafening crash, sh

ng around their batons. "H-how did you open that? W

epped inside their reach and drove the edges of my palms into both of their caro

oward the main mansion, the heels of my boots c

e manor flew open. My stepsister, Stella Price, marched out wra

by the gate, a flash of panic crossing her fa

r face here again!" Stella shrieked. "Sister Hessie is abo

ago when she had held my head down in the laundry room to pleas

ce as I walked straight toward her. "Before she puts on

p a step and pointed a trembling finger at me. "What are y

t maids lunged at

my fingers around her wrist, and used her own momentum

ng around, I pivoted and lashed out a high back-kick that caught her sq

s were groaning on the cobblestones, cl

hem of her silk robe, she scrambled backward up the step

s! Somebody

d my fingers in her freshly curled hair, and s

r nose. She clawed wildly at the wallpaper, trembling in

dragged her kicking and sobbing down the c

manicured nails, drawing thin red line

pen and hauled her straight

ou?" I looked down at her tear-streaked face, my voice devoid

r skull, I shoved her head straight dow

les echoing off the tiled walls as her hand

xygen, I yanked her dripping head back out by the hair. She collapsed onto the tiles,

and on a clean towel before tossing it onto her head. "C

n Log

ide the estate walls, using my Lycan night vision to watch the sc

chnique... there is no way she is an ordinary wolfless. Every strike g

ace of my black tungsten ring as my eyes tracked that

psister in a toilet bowl reminded me of a cornered she-wolf def

pitch-black cave beneath Ash Ridge had fought back with t

stale perfume of the Silvercrest manor, a trace of her f

e scent, but that unbreakable s

in my chest. "Dig up every single step Clio Shepard has taken over

Yes, Alpha. Shall we ret

of the mansion as the corners of my mouth curled up. "We stay