Lilith's POV I didn’t think. I just moved.Malakai’s eyes went black, pure animal, the red gone like someone flipped a switch inside him. He dropped to his hands and knees and started crawling straight at the Void Princess like his body belonged to her. She smirked and opened her arms, all golden eyes and that smug “I win” face.I stepped right in front of her. Bare. No magic. No knife. Just me blocking him.“Move, street mutt,” she scoffed. “His biology belongs to me now.”I didn’t look at her. Kept my eyes locked on him. “Look at me, Kai. You don’t bow to fate. You bow to me.”He roared, claws stopping a breath from my throat. His whole body shook like two people were fighting inside one skin. I stayed still. If I flinched he was gone.Then he did the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. He grabbed the hunting knife off his belt and jammed it into the side of his own neck. Right into the scent glands. Black blood poured out. He carved them out like they were poison, choking and gasping,
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