Valerius Pov The scent hit me three steps before I reached the archway leading to the inner royal courtyard.It was a foul, chemical stench of synthetic wolfsbane, mixed with the hot, iron smell of fresh blood.My heart didn't just drop. It froze, turned to glass, and shattered inside my chest. Zenith roared inside my skull, so loudly and violently that blood rushed into my ears, deafening me to everything except the sudden, suffocating absence of her bond.Her mark on my collarbone, the bond that had been humming with warm, steady heat ever since the physician announced the twins, had gone bone-dry. Cold. Hollow.I broke into a frantic sprint.The iron doors of the colonnade had been ripped off their hinges. Two of my elite shadow guards lay sprawled across the frost-covered flagstones, their throats torn open, their dark blood pooling over the white frost. They hadn't even had time to draw their swords. The ambush had been swift, lethal, and Perfectly planned out."Serenity!"
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