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The Shattered Mask

Author: Covey Pens
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-08 20:44:21

Mariana’s POV

They dragged me across the stone floor back at the mansion like a criminal upon the order of Rozen. The chains around my wrists scraped loud enough to echo through the whole wing. My wrists ached from hours of restraint, the metal biting into skin leaving red throbbing marks around it. My ankles felt worse. Every step is like a trip to hell. By the time the guards shoved me back into my cold dark cell, my breath was shaking from the labor.

But this does not compare to what I've gone through back in prison, I kept telling myself.

I can do it. I can take it all until I can make Evan pay for what I endured behind bars.

“Leave us alone!” a guttural voice came out from the back of the guards as they bowed before their alpha.

“Yes, Alpha!”

Rozen locked the door behind him as the guards left.

The scent hit me first. Nirvana scratched against my bones wanting to run straight into our mate.

But I know I couldn't. He is just too angry with me.

Right from the moment that I climbed
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