The evening air bit at my exposed skin as I sat on the stone bench of our bedroom balcony, staring unseeing at the city sprawled below. Five hearts. Five lives. My hands were clean now, scrubbed until my skin was raw, but I still felt the phantom warmth of blood between my fingers. I'd killed before, yes, but never so many in such quick succession. Five rogues, one after another, without hesitation or remorse. What terrified me wasn't that I'd done it, but how easy it had become.Athena stirred restlessly beneath my skin, pressing against the boundaries that separated us. She didn't understand my turmoil—to her, we had protected our territory, eliminated threats to our pack. Simple. Necessary. Just. But the human part of me, the girl who had scrubbed floors and hidden from Julian's whip, kept wondering what line I was crossing, what person I was becoming.I closed my eyes, remembering the sequence—hand against back, swift thrust forward, fingers closing around the
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