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Elara Vance was the fiercest Alpha heiress of the Obsidian Syndicate, until an 'assassination attempt' left her inner wolf crippled and her body weak. But Elara wasn't asleep when her fated mate, Julian, confessed to the poisoning. Forced to watch him install his secret mistress and hidden son in her home, Elara plays the broken victim while plotting her escape. Fleeing into the arms of Kaelen Cross—a ruthless rival lord who respects only power—she strikes a dangerous bargain to reclaim her magic. Julian thinks he broke her spirit and stole her crown. He's about to learn that a silenced wolf is the deadliest monster of all.
Chapter 1
The darkness behind my eyelids was a heavy, suffocating blanket. I tried to flutter my lashes, to draw even a shallow, trembling breath that belonged entirely to me, but my body was a tomb of lead and ice. *Move,* I commanded my fingers. *Just twitch.*Nothing. Not a single muscle responded. My inner wolf, usually a roaring inferno of Obsidian Syndicate power, was nothing more than a faint, dying ember in the deepest recesses of my mind. The silver-ash poison—delivered by the blade of a masked assassin who had breached my private wing hours ago—had done its work with terrifying efficiency. It hadn't just paralyzed my limbs; it had severed the spiritual tether between my human consciousness and my Alpha spirit. I was Elara Vance, the fiercest Alpha heiress the Obsidian Syndicate had seen in a century, and I was currently trapped inside my own skull, utterly defenseless.The heavy oak door of my bedchamber clicked open. The sound was deafening in the dead silence of the room. Soft, measured footsteps crossed the plush carpet. Two sets of them. "Is she… you know?" a woman’s voice whispered. It was high, melodic, and laced with an unmistakable thread of nervous excitement. "Comatose? Yes," a man replied. My heart would have hammered against my ribs if it weren't beating at a sluggish, artificially suppressed rhythm. *Julian.* My fated mate. The man I had chosen to stand beside me, the man I had elevated from a lower-ranking pack to be my equal. I expected to hear the frantic, heartbroken edge in his voice. I expected him to rush to my bedside, to take my lifeless hand in his, to demand the guards tear the city apart looking for the assassin who had done this to me.Instead, I heard the sharp, distinct clinking of crystal glasses being poured at the wet bar across the room."Are you absolutely certain, Julian?" the woman asked, her voice dropping an octave, slipping from nervous to conspiratorial. "The dosage was theoretical. Alpha blood is notoriously resilient, and Elara’s is the purest in the Syndicate.""Chloe, my love, relax," Julian murmured, his tone as smooth and rich as the amber whiskey I could hear him pouring. "I watched the blade go in myself. I stood in the shadows of the corridor and waited until she collapsed before I even signaled the guards to sound the alarm."
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