"Look how the great Luna crawls to heel," I murmured, watching the thick oak doors absorb Mirelle Voss's retreating steps. My eyes were completely flat, my inner wolf tracking the heavy, rhythmic thuds of her boots as she hoisted her broken cub up the spine of the grand stairs."The strike was well-executed, klinton," Cedron said, breaking the silence as he stepped off the stone dais toward me. His heavy iron armor clanked against the flagstones, his gaze narrowing as he scented my bloodline. "I recall your wilderness name was klinton during your seasons in the Ashgrove Wildlands, correct?""The name is a memory, Father," I replied, a cold, smooth rumble settling in my throat. The phonetic structure of that title sat too close to Tahlia's secondary line—it carried the scent of things I had already marked for execution."Consider the politics, klinton," Cedron groaned, his heavy jaws snapping shut as he turned his face toward the high rafters. "My discipline with Tahlia has been loose.
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