THE ALPHA'S ASSASSIN MATE
“We are two women holding two kingdoms together with spit, blood, and spite. We don’t have seven years to play nice. We have seven years to become the monsters they already think we are. Because if we fall—if we let this place fracture—Lyra and Aziel wake up to ashes and graves and children who never knew their parents’ voices.”
She let that sink in.
Kaelin raised her flagon, wine sloshing over the rim like blood. “To the monsters, then.”
Rhea lifted hers. “To the monsters.”
One by one, every wolf in the room followed—captains, scouts, healers, cooks, stable boys who’d snuck in to listen—until the war room rang with iron on iron and the promise of war.
Serna drained her cup in one brutal swa