Serena:I still wasn’t entirely sure what had happened.One moment Alexander had been looming over me with a knife in his hand, and the next he had cut my thigh, stained his sheets with my blood, kissed my cheek, and told me good night as if any of it were ordinary. The sequence of events felt impossible, like a dream I could not wake from.I stared at him for a long second before forcing myself off the bed. The cut on my thigh stung, but it was already closing, the small, stubborn part of me that was wolf working beneath the surface despite years of suppression. That fact should have comforted me, but it only made the situation more surreal. Alexander Petrova was insane; there was no other explanation that fit everything I had seen and felt tonight.I moved toward the door, wanting nothing more than to put distance between us and the room that had become a stage for his strange whims. He called my name softly.“Serena.”I stopped and looked back. “What now?”A twitch at the corner of
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