Chapter 10

For a single, suspended heartbeat, the dining room was paralyzed in a tableau of horror.

Ivy thrashed on the Aubusson rug, her heels drumming a frantic, chaotic rhythm against the floorboards. The white foam spilling from her lips was now tinged with pink, and a pungent, unnatural scen

Chapter 11

The estate was suffocating under a thick blanket of manufactured panic.

Down the hall, the frantic muffled shouts of Darius Vance echoed through the mahogany corridors. He had not left Ivy’s bedside for a single second since the pack doctor had stabilized her. For the past three hours,

Chapter 12

The Obsidian Ridge Pack ballroom was a masterpiece of architectural wealth, a sprawling cathedral of glass, gold, and polished black marble. Tonight, it was illuminated by a thousand floating candles, casting a warm, deceptive glow over the three hundred pack members gathered in their fi