The Alpha's Plump Mistake
The familiar silver glow returned to her eyes, but her gaze bored straight into the three commanders with unflinching certainty.
“Hold my hand, Lawrence,” she whispered, heavy with sovereign authority. “Let the over‑mark’s light judge your vanguard’s hearts. Whoever has been corrupted by the Temple’s runes will bleed on this altar.”
I laced my fingers through hers. The carnal and mystical link exploded; a thread of pure gold burst from our joined wrists, snapping like a luminous whip down the aisle and wrapping the three men in a dome of revealing energy.
For three agonizing seconds, the light hovered over their armor. Then, as it touched General Lorcan’s plates—the officer in charge of the