ALPHA Arthur: The Mate Who Lied
"Drop the kid, you sick freak! Get your hands off him!"
Lucian’s roar tore through the smoke-choked ballroom, a guttural sound that didn't belong to a man. It belonged to a predator. He shoved a decorative marble pillar, sending three hundred pounds of stone crashing onto a cluster of Ignatius’s gunmen. Bones snapped like dry kindling. He didn't stop to watch. He moved in a blur of black tactical gear and crimson spray, his teeth bared, eyes glowing a flat, murderous red.