The Alpha's rejected mate
I didn't lay a hand on her, but I used my towering frame to back her entirely against the vanity.
"Thirty Shadow-walkers, Zara," I growled, bracing my hands on the table on either side of her hips, trapping her. "Elite vampire assassins. They ambushed General Vesh’s scouting party at the Silver Creek bridge. They nearly slaughtered us all."
"I... I..." She pressed herself backward against the mirror, tears of genuine, unadulterated terror welling in her eyes.
"Before I took the last assassin's head," I continued, my voice cold and merciless, "he thanked the 'pretty bird in the gilded cage' for the tactical information."
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