The Banished Mate: Awakening The Silver Wolf
For a moment, she thought he might be reconsidering — perhaps her pathetic truth had struck a chord.
He walked toward her again, his voice calm, low… deceptively kind.
“Tell me,” he said, crouching beside her, dagger in hand, “everything you know. Every detail.”
Grasping at the illusion of hope, Zara nodded frantically. “She used some kind of forbidden blood magic. Her strength—it's not natural. She feeds on power, sacrifices, pain. She said she was going to rebuild the northern lands, rule them herself. Kaden refused to obey her… so she imprisoned him. Chained him in the underground dungeon beneath the ruins of Greyfang Fortress. It’s true, I swear—she’s insane—”