Brandon's hand clamps around the back of my neck, and the world tilts. "Please." The word comes out wet and broken. Behind us, the perimeter wall is gone, peeled open like cardboard, and the feral tide pours through the gap. Skinless wolves, hundreds of them. Their breath reaches me before their claws do, a rotten copper stink that coats my tongue. "You healed everyone else." Brandon's voice is calm, and that is the worst part. He sounds like a man ordering lunch. "Heal this." Chloe presses against his side, her fingers laced through his. "Hurry, baby," she says. "They're so close."I scream his name. He answers by throwing me. My back hits the mud. For three seconds, I watch my mate run with his arm around his mistress, her ruby necklace bouncing against her collarbone. My mother's ruby.Then the first jaws find my throat. Teeth punch through my throat, and the impact echoes inside my skull. Blood sprays across a snout as wide as my torso, and the last thi
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