Replaced by His First Love
“Get Leo to the sub-level bunker. Marcus is waiting.”
Phoenix straightened her blazer, hazel eyes turning back into lethal flint shards. She drew her own blades, silver reflecting pale, bruised moonlight.
“I’m not hiding in a bunker, Blackwood,” she hissed, voice a scalpel. “The Council wants the White Wolf? I’ll show them the fire that raised him.”
Outside, a low, distorted howl tore the night, followed by a silver arrow whistling through darkness. It buried itself in the balcony railing, carrying new message in necrotic purple ink: