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I just snap her neck.

And just like that, the woman who has tormented the entire North Alliance for decades is dead, her eyes staring unseeing into the night sky.

Chapter 27

Alex

Karina’s death is so anticlimactic that I stare at the body for a few minutes, dazed.

Sophia’s hand on my back as she crouches beside me helps me focus.

“She’s gone,” I whisper. “Just like that. I always thought I would… I always imagined how I would kill her and then she died just like this. I just broke her neck.”

My mate’s fingers ran through my hair, her hands shaking. “This was the best way. She didn’t deserve your time and effort. She craved attention and importance and you didn’t give her either. This is the best way for her to die.”

I turn my head and bury my face in her chest. It seems childish, but I need her comfort. Sophia’s arms wrap around my head as she holds me to her. “It’s going to be okay. You can finally move on.”

I hold her to me, breathing in her scent, relieved that she is fine.

“The things she promised to do to you—” I begin, but my mate shakes her head. “Forget it. Forget her. We managed to preventthe war. You are safe. And we are together. That is all that matters. Everything else comes last.”

Just then, I hear a scream. “Grace!”

Sophia’s head jerks up and I look over to see her mother convulsing on the ground.

A large white wolf rushes towards her, but another is closer and faster. Logan shifts into his human form and picks up Grace. “We need a healer he-”

He doesn’t even get to finish the sentence before he collapses, Grace still in his arms. Sophia tries to approach him but a strange glow is emanating from her mother. No, it’s coming from both of them. I shield Sophia’s eyes as the entire world turns bright, far too bright. And then it’s gone.

Everything is back to normal.

However, both Logan and Grace are lying unconscious on the ground.

The white wolf reaches them first and shifts into Cyrus.

But his eyes widen and he stumbles back. “How is this possible?”

“What’s going on?” Sophia cries out, heading over. Then she too, goes still.

The fighting stopped the minute Karina died. I walk over to see what has everybody so shellshocked and that’s when I catch it. Grace and Logan’s scent. It’s intermingled.

It’s like that of two mates.

Sophia looks at me slowly. “Tell me I’m dreaming.”

I crouch down and check the side of Logan’s neck. I see a clear mating mark where there had been none before. Her mother has the same mark on her neck.

“I told you she concealed the mating mark.” There is smug satisfaction in Marlene’s voice. “Who knew that her mate was with you all along. You should’ve been nicer to your father-in-law, Alex.”

I glare at her before muttering, “He always said I wasn't good enough for Sophia. Now he's going to hold it over my head, probably blame me for getting captured as well."

Sophia sinks to the ground, staring at her two unconscious parents. “How is this possible?”

“Your father must’ve been captured by the dark witches.” I put my hand on her shoulder.

Sophia shakes her head at me. “Shouldn’t he have recognized my scent? I mean, he’s my father.”

“I think it’s better for you to take the two of them away from here,” Marlene advises. I glance at Cyrus, who looks like his entire world has fallen apart. He'd probably hoped his daughter's mate was dead.

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