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nst the iron armrest, the burly officer standing

onto Felix's spine. The bone-crushing force flattened Felix face-f

t the filthy mud filling his mouth. He slammed his forehead repeatedly

eyes back to me. "Prove it to me right now. If you are

pulling out a gold surgical needle as thin as a strand of hair. Pure silver would ha

ng knights tensed up instantly. Dozens of longswords rasped out

egs, the black blood under his nails, and the rigid muscles beneath his trousers told me the pain had never truly left him. "Your Highness suffer

ad always claimed his legs were completely dead and numb from silver rot.

I walked slowly toward his wheelchair. His officer steppe

ick black fabric of his trousers, I drove the gold needle

h, the dead muscles of his calf twitched vi

ed it out cleanly. A tiny drop of thick,

ned needle tip up before his eyes. "Give me three months

en locked his gaze onto my eyes for ten full seco

fail, I will crush every bone in your

ight. "It is a deal. But before we go, I n

Felix, who was still groveling in t

me to sign that annulment contract?" I raised my voice so

gement pendant he had given me years ago and ya

Corinna Sears, officially declare that I am dumping you. A spineless cowar

the heavy metal pendant s

a hand over his face, his features twisting with rage and humiliation, yet und

ad ever seen a wolfless outcast publicly

und his teeth so hard his jaw bulged, sq

o the trash where you belong," I sneered, turning my back on him to

ross his ice-blue eyes. He lifted two fingers, and his

cort her back to the Sears M

arhorse toward me. Carrying my bruised, aching body, I kept my sp

frantic hoofbeats pounded down the street outside the square. A blood-dre

lbows until he collapsed before Gavin's wheels. "The little prince... his