122ISABELLAThe moment the six witches finished the first stanza of the ancient Latin siphon, the mud beneath my boots turned into a sheet of pale, crystalline frost. The white coven light snaked up my ankles like glowing vines, and a sudden, violent numbness slammed into my lower back. It felt as if someone had driven a hollow needle directly into my spine, drawing out not just my physical energy, but the very marrow of my soul."Selene, please!" I choked out. My breath billowed in front of my face in thick, white plumes as the temperature inside the circle plummeted. "He's dying! If you drain me, you kill him too!"Selene didn't blink. The curved silver dagger in her right hand remained perfectly level with my throat. "His heart is already failing, Isabella. The Northern Eclipse coven does not risk the world to save a broken Alpha wolf. We do what must be done to keep the old parasite dead."Behind my eyes, Rose went completely feral. Let me out! she shrieked, her voice a piercing,
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