Bound in Black Magic
With a sickeningly easy motion, he grabbed the collar of my uniform and violently ripped the fabric down, exposing my ruined, bruised, and fever-swollen shoulder to the open air for the first time.
Gasps echoed around us as a few pack warriors, who had just arrived at the edge of the training grounds, stopped dead in their tracks.
The alpha’s face went completely, terrifyingly blank, but the air around him dropped in temperature so fast I could see our breath fogging. The beast inside him was clawing at the surface, furious that his claimed mate was rotting from an infected wound right under his roof.
"Who did this?" he whispered, his voice dangerously soft, carrying a lethal promise of abso