Asher:The moment the line went dead, I threw the phone.It slammed into the wall, the screen spiderwebbing on impact, and landed on the floor with a small, useless clatter. The noise should have helped, should have been a release, but it only made the anger louder.Dimitri’s voice still echoed in my head: calm, certain, the way a man sounds when he thinks he’s already won. Worse, Nikita had heard everything.I stood behind my desk, hands flat on the wood, breathing slow because anything faster would have made me lose whatever control I had left. My eyes burned gold; I didn’t need a mirror to know the wolf was close to the surface. He’d played me. He’d let me talk, let me reveal pieces I hadn’t meant to give away, and then he’d used those pieces against me.“FUCK!” I yelled. I swept my arm across the desk. Papers flew. A glass shattered, and I glared at the mess in front of me as if that was going to solve anything. The door opened and Daren stepped in, taking in the ruined phone and t
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