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Footsteps thundered down the hall.

Ronan.

His voice exploded through the stairwell. “What the hell happened here?!”

Most of the students had deserted the halls for some underground party in the lower crypts of Blackwood; those who weren’t at the revel were either on duty or sneaking off, half-dressed in silk and cheap bravado, ready to slip into the night like thieves.

The emptiness made the place feel enormous and thin, like a grin stretched over a skull.

Scarlet’s throat tightened. Her wolf...a cold, efficient whisper in her mind...hissed, "Here we go again. Another drama."

Her body went still, an animal ready to spring but restrained by something older than rage: calculation.

Liora lay on the marble, the blood at her ankle glinting black and ornate under the chandelier. It was all show...too perfect, a tableau carved and staged.

Liora’s face, pale and smeared with rouge-streaked tears, looked absurdly fragile. She pointed up the stairwell with a trembling finger that trembled m
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  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   100.

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  • The Reluctant Alpha and His Sassy Queen   99.

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