Maxwe

eside his left eye twitching uncontrollably. A cold thrill of ve

ncil to unilaterally revoke our capital residency sponsorship next Tuesd

to pinpricks, and he stared at me as if a corpse

you'll have the Council issue an emergency Pack expulsion order, forcing my family to liquida

mbling over his tongue. "What kind of lunati

tween myself and his nauseating cedar s

armchair could hear every word clearly. "To make sure the Maxwell family can never ap

s of military-grade illicit silver dust, already sitting in your warehouse, r

face, leaving his skin a sickly gray-white. His knees buckled, and he s

rd. "You monsters! Planting military silver dust carries the mandatory penalty of whole-P

c composure. Terror morphed into feral rage as he braced

, his voice cracking at the end. "The Cantrell Pack is a founding noble house o

felt nothing but disgust. In my past life, I had

rtbeat is answering for you," I said calmly, walking over to the

s lower-ranking patrol guards for three whole months, Kerr. The Cantrell treasury is drowning in so much deb

and with a guttural snarl, he lunged across the rug with his hand raised to choke me

fiercely loyal Beta bodyguard and personal assistant, Cora Hayes, stepped directly between us, her left forearm kno

r voice like grinding gravel as her cold eyes locked on

a, he knew that starting a physical brawl unannounced inside another Pack's heavi

orehead. "Dahlia, I don't care which traitor leaked false rumors to you,

bourbon in one swallow. The fiery liquor scorched dow

to a thousand glittering shards between his shoes. "Go back and tell your mother Assunta that if she wants a piece of the

m his palms. Then, all of a sudden, the tension in his shoulders dropped. He threw his

claws well," he said, wiping a hand down his f

nered dog was about to play what he thought w

th cruel pity. "Since we're laying all our cards on the table, I won't bother sparing your

us smirk. "Seraphina Schaefer, the daughter of Gamma General Dario Schaef