The Lycan Commander’s Lethal Shadow
"Increase the output! The cipher is breaking! I can hear the power behind the door! When I claim the Sovereign core, the North will bow! Anna will bow!"
"Your calculations are off by three orders of magnitude, Saed," Anna’s voice cut through the cavern like a blade of ice.
Saed whipped around, his dagger raised defensively, his chest heaving as though he had just run miles. When his eyes landed on Anna, standing tall, wearing the dark iron of the Blackwood Legion with Liam towering beside her like an unyielding mountain, his face twisted into a grotesque mask of rage, disbelief and deep festering humiliation.