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My nails elongated to vicious points in the span of a heartbeat “What do you think you know about nant scent The possibility this moron knew more about me than I did tested my compassion on every level “Imp, you have three seconds beforeto like what she has to say” She growled her agreement in my mind and I echoed it out loud for effect

Instead of answering, the irasp Hisme to take a small step backward to steady myself But my hold didn’t break, because he eak and the iant anvils waiting to bring the hah of this crap, de to talk whether you want to or not” I dug my nails into his neck to accentuate my point “You can either spill it here with me, or you can face my Alpha, who is a lot less patient than me”

“You will not rule us… bitch,” he sputtered, blood slowly leaking out of the wounds in his neck “We are stronger We will never follow you! Your filth cannot touch us”

Rule? “What in the hell are you talking about?” He wasn’t talking about ruling the hue of his heels, ry violet “Listen clearly to what I’ to do with your de you doesn’t even make sense I’m a wolf, and deht ly “And believe e There’s absolutely nothing about your kind that appeals to me” Stinky, unwashed cretins

He opened hisme on so many levels “We will strike you down before you place a foot on the throne of Astaroth! The Prophecy will not stand Your death is ih the choke hold “You will not best the powers of the Underworld We are co—”

I slamround like a worthless et in line, buddy, because everybody around here see”

I opened my car door and tossed hi, but it would take a while to recover Unwanted attacks were getting old, but at least this one didn’t have a foa muzzle and three-inch canines I slid into the driver’s seat

Now I just had to figure out why everyone in the entire supernatural race seemed to know more about me than I did

“What did you just say?” I stood so quickly, ainst the wall “The Second Co of what? And who exactly was the first?”

Devon tossed a panicked look at my father, Callum McClain, Pack Alpha of the US Northern Territories The three of us had been sitting at the conference table in my office;cale He nodded to Devon to continue as I stalked around the table Fear leaked out of the Pack’s coy

Devon spoke again, clearing his voice once before he started “U to what it says here…” I stopped behind his chair, leaning over his shoulder to read the words for myself The text on the screen appeared to be taken froinal parchround looked broken and old, like the ink had rubbed off before they’d snapped a good shot of it It read: