Shattered glass and amber liquid littered the floor. Kael didn’t notice. His entire world had narrowed to me. Chest heaving, eyes wide, he took a trembling step forward, disbelief and madness warring across his face.“ARIA!”He lunged, moving with the desperation of a drowning Alpha, vaulting over the conference table as if I were air itself.“Mommy!” Leo gasped.I didn’t flinch. A single pivot on my crimson stiletto, and Kael crashed into empty space, stumbling into a chair, wild and unhinged.Before he could strike again, a wall of muscle and power blocked him.“Back off, Blackwood,” Ryan growled. His Alpha aura hit Kael like a tidal wave, sandalwood and ozone clashing with the sharp sting of whiskey and chaos.“Get out of my way!” Kael snarled, teeth bared. “That is my mate! That is Aria!”“That,” Ryan said calmly, hand resting on my waist, “is my fiancée. And her name is Phoenix.”“Liar!” Kael roared. His voice cracked, raw and broken. “I would know her anywhere! Aria! Stop hiding
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