The Alpha's Forbidden Flame
The smell of something ancient and vengeful and utterly without mercy.
"A death curse." Morgana appeared beside me, her face pale. "Someone bound a death curse to his tongue. The moment he tried to name them—"
Damien collapsed.
His body convulsed once, twice, then went still. The smoke dissipated, leaving nothing but a young man's corpse and a hall full of wolves who had just watched him die for trying to tell the truth.
Casimir fell to his knees beside his son.
The sound he made wasn't human—a howl of grief that shook the walls, that tore through the hall like a physical force. I stepped back, giving him space, watching the man who had called for my expulsion break apart over the body of th