Montgo

es the instant my cold fingers locked aro

e!" she yelled, surging her wolf strength

, I drove my thumb into the nerve clu

Dellie gasped as her strength dissolved inst

I pressed my left palm against her shou

as slammed chest-first against a carved stone pil

g my ash-smeared fac

n't have time to play h

llie flushed crimson from neck to ear. She thrash

ed and beaten stood with their jaws hanging open. A footman dropped

pinned to the wall with one hand b

humiliation, her fiery hair

beast arena if you have the guts!" she snarle

ld have died three times before touching the sand.

mpulsive, she had grown up in a martial pack and realized thi

c did you use?" she dem

eaning of this uproar in

followed by the heavy thud of a brass wolf-head cane striking th

It was Howard Carlisle, the former Pack Alpha and head of the Council of Elders. Clinging

d her fierce act. Pouting her lips, she ran

was acting all high and mighty in the hall, and sh

e lifting to pin me down. The suffocating spiritual

I smoothed the cuffs of my cloak and

sent by Ronald?" Howard's voi

over my chest and performed a flawless

through Howard's eyes as I

holding silver needles to murder Brother! Sister

bloodline of the Carlisle pack, you were subdued in public by a

stomped her boot, and

you will behave as a nominal wife. Tomorrow the Council of Elders will discuss the rites.

e, the old Lord turned an

ng. Suddenly, the black multi-faceted crystal stud on