ELENAThe crinkled white parchment tore in Kaelen’s fist, the fragments dissolving into tiny flakes of ash as a pulse of raw, golden Lycan fire erupted from his palm."Mobilize the vanguard," Kaelen hissed, his voice dropping into a flat, terrifyingly quiet frequency that made the thirty elite Beta guards in the subterranean corridor instantly drop to one knee. The air in The Sovereign Altar room grew heavy, suffocating, and thick with a murderous bloodlust that caused the stone floorboards to thrum. "Every armored battalion from the Northern border is to march toward the Southern line by noon. If the Southern trash thinks he can hold my mate’s survival hostage, I will turn his paradise into a mass grave.""Kaelen, wait," I said, stepping directly into his line of sight, my amber eyes flaring with a bright, steady ring of golden Phoenix fire to counter his pressure."I am not waiting, Elena!" he roared, turning on me with a predatory speed that caused his black military uniform to sna
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