The Mate They Threw Away
But my body betrayed me, and I felt myself sinking toward the floor.
“I want that Primus energy,” Madame X said, looking down at me with a cold, hungry smile that held nothing human in it. “And you, Alpha Kieran Stone, have so very much of it. More than you even know. More than you could possibly understand.”
I tried to speak, to demand answers, to call on my wolf. But my vision was already darkening around the edges, the smoke stealing not just my breath but my consciousness itself.
The last thing I saw was Sage’s face, her expression filled with something that might have been regret or sympathy. She was saying something, her lips moving urgently, but I couldn’t hear the words over the roar