The 200-Year Bride Swap
Malachai continues, his words deliberate, each one sinking like a knife into my composure.
“Oh, for fuck’s sake!” I roar, incredulous at this turn of fate. “She’s supposed to be killed by his fated mate, not be it!”
I turn from the window, pressing my knuckles hard against the sill until the carved wood bites into my skin. Three brides. Three carefully orchestrated deaths, each one designed to look like the inevitable casualty of a wolf's true mate claiming what was hers. A clean, deniable pattern. The wolves blamed. The treaty collapsed. The peace deal dead before it could take root.