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The Were laughed, waving a hand toward Salvatore’s body pinned to the wall

"Obviously I’m not without resources"

"You can’t hold me here indefinitely So, unless you have another demon lord tucked in the cellar, you’re screwed" His eyes narrowed "I do have one question"

"You want to knohy," Briggs mocked

"No, I knohy You’re an aly destroy your own people rather than accept the fact that you weren’t worthy of being their leader"

An icy burst of pain exploded through hiht look like a corpse, he wasn’t in his grave

Not yet

"I’m more worthy than you’ll ever be," the pureblood hissed

Salvatore’s huh the empty shell of a cabin

"Not even in your sick and twisted brain can you still believe your own lies"

"Without you…"

"Without me the Weres would have beco, but their savior," Salvatore deliberately prodded "My nas’s co with an insane fury Reaching up, he sh force to split his lip

"Bloody bastard"

Salvatore calmly turned to spit the blood from his mouth "What I want to know is, was it worth it?"

"Worth what?"

"Was it worth sacrificing your pack, your loyalty, your sense of honor for a futile attempt to sit on a throne never intended for you?"

There was another blast of icy pain, and Briggs’s face twisted with insane hatred

"It will be worth every sacrifice once you’re dead"

Salvatore’s h the pain he sensed Briggs’s ainst the ere deteriorating, and the chill biting into his flesh lessening

Thankfully, the bastard was too distracted by his own anger to realize the danger

"It’s a shame really," Salvatore drawled, quite happy to stir the bastard’s te, and you won’t be around to appreciate our glory"

The stark truth of his words was the last nudge needed to send theoff his cloak to reveal his skeleton body "Hell’s waiting for you, Giuliani Give s shifted, the sound of his lols and popping bones unnaturally loud in the isolated cabin The candlelight flickered as his face elongated, his fangs lengthening to deadly daggers and his eyes flashing with crimson fire

Crazy or not, he was still a lethal predator

Which he ift to prove as he launched his attack, using Salvatore’s i against the invisible bonds, Salvatore barelythe violent impact on his shoulder He felt his collarbone snap and the fangs rip deep into his flesh, but he survived

This tiichis teeth, he ed to force hiain pounced

Plowing directly into Salvatore’s chest, Briggs’s attack sent thes once again biting deep into Salvatore’s shoulder Agonizing pain jolted through hi his aard body to obey his coain his balance, his fangs dripping blood, and his eyes s in a deep breath, Salvatore prepared to shift It was much easier to call on the power of his pack in olf form Not to s’s throat

Reaching for his beast, he abruptly growled in disbelief, stunned to discover that his powers lurked just out of reach His wolf snarled, but reic, as if trapped behind an invisible barrier

Just as his connection to his pack was cut off

His gut twisted with dread as he shoved against the unseen wall, searching for a s’s spell had not only affected his e to howl in frustration, Salvatore instead forcibly calainst the black ic His as currently impotent, but as hiselse inside hi to do with his position as king Or even his strength as an alpha olf This force ca to do with Harley