“Step back, Alaric,” I snapped, the scent of crushed pine and raw wolf aura rolling over my bare skin. “The Gilded Crown serves purebloods, not boundary-stalkers.”Alaric Sterling didn’t retreat. He closed the gap in two long, deliberate strides, his massive frame blotting out the velvet-draped corridor of the underworld club. He wore no pack colors, yet the suffocating weight of the Sterling Heights alpha bloodline rolled off him in waves, thick enough to force standard wolves to their knees.I stood my ground, my pulse hammering a steady, defiant rhythm against my ribs. I wasn’t a standard wolf. The Ashford Manor had discarded me like trash three weeks ago, branding me a scentless human parasite. They thought throwing me into the Blackveil District with a blood-oath exile would kill me. They were wrong.“I came to hunt, Darcy,” Alaric purred, his voice a low rumble that vibrated straight into my sternum. His golden wolf eyes flashed amber under the dim red lanterns of the VIP hall.
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