The instant the trigger pulled, a figure threw itself across the space.The silver bullet caught Caine square in the heart.He staggered, then crashed down onto the steps in front of me, blood surging from his chest, spreading dark across the tiles.I stood there, and what I felt was complicated.Then, the next second, the cold came back over me.Once, I had thrown myself in front of him the same way, without a thought for myself.And he hadn't spared me a single look. He'd turned and carried Celina—who had a scratch, nothing more—into the safe room.Two warriors had Celina pinned. Her face was nothing but raw, frenzied hate.“Why couldn't it have been you,” she shrieked at me. “This is your fault. If it weren't for you, Caine never would have noticed what I'd done. It's all your fault.”My father's face went black as a storm.The crushing weight of the Alpha King's aura blew out with no warning, and the whole hall shuddered faintly under it.Celina dropped as if an invisible hand had
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