Within seconds, his claws punched through her chest, tore cleanly through flesh, and crushed her heart.Her mouth fell open. Then she collapsed without making a sound.Blood poured from her chest, spreading into a vast dark-red stain across the snow.He withdrew his blood-soaked hand and turned to face me."That was the debt she owed you. I wanted you to see me collect it for you with your own eyes."I know I was wrong, Talia. I executed that lying she-wolf. Please come back to me."His hand would not stop trembling, yet he fought to force a smile for me.That smile dragged me back to the days just after he had come of age, when he killed his first full-grown moose, one that had survived the winter alone. He carried it back to camp and smiled beside the fire.That smile had all the ease and swagger a young wolf has, as though the whole world were under his feet.Now, a similar smile rested on the same face, but none of that youthful triumph remained.His words enraged Alexius. The domi
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