LOGINEvelyn Estefan was betrayed by the two people she trusted most...her husband and her best friend and banished from her pack, she was left to wander the outskirts with nothing but heartbreak and fury. Fate led her into the arms of the Lycan King. One night was all it took for him to claim her body, soul, and loyalty. Unable to let her go, he offered her a dangerous bargain: marriage in exchange for her obedience, and in return, he would help her destroy those who cast her aside. When her husband sees her again standing beside the Lycan King, powerful and untouchable he wants her back. But Evelyn Estefan is no longer the woman he betrayed. And this time, she is the one who will decide who burns.
View MoreEVELYN“It’s a trap.”The words left my mouth quietly, but every guard around us heard them. The street suddenly felt smaller. The warehouse ahead seemed darker.More dangerous. Keiran’s jaw tightened beside me. Uriel cursed under his breath. For several seconds, nobody moved. Then Keiran stepped closer.“What exactly do you sense?”I closed my eyes. The white wolf stretched beneath my skin.Not fighting me.Not clawing for freedom.Working with me.For the first time in my life, I wasn’t trying to suppress her. I was listening.“There are people inside,” I said.“How many?” Uriel asked.“I don’t know.”I frowned.“Maybe twenty. Maybe more.”A ripple of tension spread through the guards.“And there’s blood.”Keiran immediately looked at me.“Fresh blood?”I nodded.“Very fresh.”Uriel exchanged a grim look with Keiran.“Someone’s already dead.”“No.”My eyes opened.The certainty surprised even me.“They’re injured.”Both men stared.“How do you know?”I pointed toward the warehouse.
KEIRANThe explosion echoed through the palace long after the fire itself had begun to die.Smoke still curled into the night sky as I strode through the damaged west wing with Uriel at my side.Broken stone littered the floor. Servants rushed in every direction. Guards shouted orders. The scent of burned wood hung heavily in the air. But none of it mattered.Because Gareth was gone.“Damn it,” I growled.A nearby captain immediately straightened.“Your Majesty?”“Have they found him?”The captain swallowed.“No.”Of course not.I clenched my jaw. Everything about this felt planned.Too planned, the explosion and the confusion. The missing guards. The timing.Gareth hadn’t escaped. He’d been extracted. Uriel seemed to reach the same conclusion.“They had help.”I glanced at him.“You think?”His mouth twitched.“At least fifteen guards vanished during the explosion.”I stopped walking.“Fifteen?”Uriel nodded grimly.“All assigned to areas Gareth’s supporters were known to frequent.”
VANESSAThe explosion shook the dungeon walls hard enough to send dust raining from the ceiling. I smiled.The guards outside my cell cursed and stumbled as another tremor rippled through the stone floor. Somewhere above us, people were screaming.Running.Panicking.Exactly as they should.I leaned back against the cold wall and closed my eyes for a moment, savoring the sound of chaos.For weeks, everything had gone wrong. Evelyn had survived. Keiran had survived.The white wolf had revealed itself and somehow turned half the kingdom against itself instead of against her.But now?Now Gareth was finally moving. The explosion wasn’t meant to destroy the palace.It was a message.A reminder.A warning.And warnings always came before wars. One of the guards rushed past my cell.Another followed.“Get to the west wing!”“The fire is spreading!”“Where’s Commander Arlo?”“I don’t know!”I almost laughed.Nothing unraveled faster than a kingdom that thought it was safe. Minutes passed. Th
KEIRANI didn’t ask her if she wanted to leave. I took her hand immediately and I walked her out of that chamber before the doors had fully closed behind us, before the elders could call for anything else, before Gareth’s allies could regroup and find their footing again.She didn’t resist. That alone..that quiet trust in my grip nearly broke something open in my chest.I led her down through the oldest corridor in the palace, past the servants’ stairs, past the sealed rooms nobody entered anymore, down into the lower level where the stone grew warm underfoot and the air thickened with heat and minerals and something ancient. The private hot spring under the east wing. A room I had never shown another person.The torchlight caught the surface of the water as we entered, amber and wavering, steam curling upward in slow, ghostlike ribbons.I locked the door behind us. Evelyn stood at the edge of the pool, taking it in. The tension across her shoulders hadn’t fully dissolved yet. Her c
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