Zaden's Pov. I should have known she would outdo herself eventually. She had the spirit of a fighter but the prowess of a limping wolf. I could kill you here and now and have your body buried in the woods, and it would take nothing out of me. "Then do it," she challenged, her lips quivering. Her face was now as red as a tomato, and the spark in those crystal blue eyes had died, leaving only a dark gloom. "No one would come for me, not even my father. So I am telling you right here and now, Zaden, kill me." Her voice didn't shake, despite my threats. It infuriated me…this desperate, ugly bravery. She stood before me like a broken glass pretending to be whole, daring me to shatter what little was left of her. I looked at the rise and fall of her chest; the raw, furious look of defeat I was awaiting refused to surface. A limping wolf, yes. But one that still bared its teeth at the jaws of its predator. “Let her beg,” a dark part of me whispered. Instead, I stepped closer, clos
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