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VALERIA.“Mate.” The word tore from my throat, a ragged, breathless whisper that felt like it had been violently extracted from my soul.“I am kneeling in the mud,” I thought, my mind spinning in a chaotic, intoxicating blur. “I am kneeling in the blood of men who just tried to kill me, and I cannot bring myself to care.”The heavy, suffocating scent of rain, crushed pine needles, and his dominant Alpha pheromones completely short-circuited my calculating brain.The moonlight sliced through the broken canopy above, casting sharp, chiaroscuro shadows across his towering, blood-soaked chest. He was a monster forged in violence, a god of death standing over a graveyard of rogues.But as he dropped to his knees in the mud in front of me, he didn't look like a monster. He looked at me with a desperate, trembling reverence.“You’re safe,” he choked out, his voice a gravelly, vibrating rumble that sent shockwaves straight down my spine. His massive, calloused hands reached for my face, hover

KAELEN."Tell me you found her."My voice was a low, vibrating growl that barely sounded human. I stood in the center of the temporary, suffocatingly tense command post erected on the very edge of the Silvercrest borders.The tactical monitors cast a sharp, high-contrast chiaroscuro glow across the canvas walls, illuminating the terrified faces of my elite trackers.To keep my hands from tearing the tent—and everyone inside it—to shreds, I gripped the steel hilt of a broadsword. I squeezed it rhythmically, the metal groaning and warping under the sheer, unadulterated force of my erratic Alpha energy."Answer me, Kael," I barked, taking a heavy step toward my lead tracker. "Where is she?"Kael swallowed hard, his throat bobbing. He was a hardened Vanguard veteran, a man who had survived a dozen border wars, but right now, he was sweating through his uniform, trembling under the suffocating weight of my aura."Supreme Alpha," Kael stammered, dropping his gaze to the dirt floor. "We’ve s