POV: Silas“You picked the wrong twin to negotiate with, Silas,” the second Elara whispered, her voice a dripping, venomous caress that echoed over the structural groaning of the dying castle.My eyes darted frantically between the two identical women. On the steps of the shattered dais, the Elara I had spent the last hour begging, the one who had just drunk my poisoned Alpha blood to unlock the genetic mystery of our pack, lay convulsing on her knees, her pristine skin webbed with necrotic, silver-black veins. At the entrance of the hall stood her flawless double, draped in tattered royal silk, holding a severed head that was still leaking luminescent silver fluid onto the marble floorboards.Before I could form a single word, the doppelgänger dropped the severed head. It rolled across the floor, stopping right against my boot. I raised my brow in absolute horror as the features caught the twilight; it wasn't a stranger. It was the ancient seer, Mira. But her milky, blind eyes weren'
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