BOUGHT BY THE BEAST
"Ezra, if he comes here, if he gets close to me again, the needle reaches him. The connection feeds the poison."
"The poison does not matter anymore because there will be nothing left of this valley by nightfall," Ezra said bluntly. "He is not a King right now. He is not a man who listens to reason or politics or treaties. He is the Beast, and someone stole his mate. If he arrives at this perimeter and smells Kieran Thorne's scent on your skin, he will kill every living creature between this ridge and the eastern sea."
Kieran stepped up beside me then, his hand dropping to the grip of his sidearm. "Let him try. I have two hundred men ready to die before they let him take her."