bride of vengeance
Vasper vale claimed by my ex's lycan king fathermy personal lycan kingbetrayed and claimed by the lycan kingfated for my lycan king
Blood pooled dark and wide across the pale marble floor, spreading in a slow, spidering pattern that caught the torchlight like something obscene.
Somewhere behind me, one of the young women from the bride selection screamed, the sound sharp and raw, quickly joined by others as more guests spilled into the hallway to see what had happened. Guards pushed past us, fanning out through the corridors, searching every shadowed alcove and locked door for whoever had done this.
Alejandro moved down the stairs ahead of me, his expression carved from stone, every trace of the man who'd stood so gently in my room only minutes before gone entirely, replaced by something colder, sharper a king assessing