Lilith's POV The ear landed on the silk sheets with a wet, sickening thud, and for one suspended heartbeat, the world just stopped existing.Blood. Dark, congealed, still-fresh blood smeared across the white fabric like some kind of grotesque signature, and attached to that blood was an ear. An Alpha ear, severed cleanly at the cartilage, the skin around it still faintly warm. I stared at it, my brain refusing to process what my eyes were seeing, because this wasn't supposed to be happening. We were supposed to be safe. The compound was supposed to be impenetrable. And yet here was this woman, this ghost of a woman, standing at the foot of our bed like she owned the place, her lips curled into a smile that made my stomach turn inside out.Vane didn't hesitate. One second he was beside me, his body coiled with that lethal tension that always made him look like a predator about to strike, and the next he was across the room, his hand wrapped around the assassin's throat, slamming her
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