on's

of the celebration outside. My father didn't even wait for the latch t

onsense, Easton?" he barked, s

tar like a common rogue in fro

trolled. "It was the only way to handle it cleanly, Father. A

was messy, and I hate mess. But I felt no regret because a pack cannot be run o

er her stomach. I loved Brenda. She gave me everything I actually needed to

logical one to utilize. She was pregnant with the next Alpha heir and she had to be m

coil. She was all soft, quiet, and pitiful, always looking

for her in the first place. It must have been a temporary lapse in judgm

bility when a perfect, capable woman

ood up, walking over to press a quick, sweet kiss against

wo

a mask of agony, all the color draining from her cheeks in a fraction of a second.

ugh my chest. "Brenda? Wh

hroat as her knees buckled entirely, sending her crashing onto the floor

my knees beside her, my hands shaking as I tried to hold her up.

kicked the door open, his voice booming down

e screamed at the guards a

d dies, you d

eing the red dark stain spreading on her dress, leaking o

d, the sound terrified as

n, my

l toward the infirmary in a blur of shouting and footsteps. I started to follow, my heart ha

dered, "You cannot

use. I couldn't in

rat brought a curse into this house with her pathetic screa

e corridor. My hands were covered in Brenda's blood, my mind spinning and calcul

ie was still on the floor where the guards had dro

nd grabbed a fistful of her hair, violently pulled her up until

ight in her face. "Is this what you wanted? You just couldn't walk

tantly flying up to grasp at my wrist,

regre

se of you," I snarled, tighte

the second you stepped onto that altar. Don't thi

ars, her lips trembling. She didn't

he ground. She hit the floor hard, sliding a few inches away. I wiped my blood

o a deadly whisper. "If Brenda loses that baby, you won't

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n the doors of the infirmary finally swung open, the lead nurse stepped out, her face

ost th

All the logical planning, the carefully constructed future of my

chest, replacing the panic w

weight of the loss, I was hauled out of the corridor

g table. I dropped into my chair, my hands still faintly stained with dried

aking his graying head. "The future of the IronV

slammed both palms down onto the wood, "Let us look at the facts. Brenda was perfectly healthy, then that wolfles

dding solemnly. "A wolfless pack member brings nothing bu

out looking for details or evidence. They were right. Everything was fine until Rosalie

any rogue herbs-" Elder Thomas started, but my fa

e will be no trial for a parasite who brings misfortune upon the future Alpha

uncil table, his voice leaving ab

nus declared, his face hardening into stone. "Let the darkness have