Chapter 63 The Lie She Sold
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What was this rage burning inside my chest?
It wasn’t just fury. Fury, I understood. This was something darker. Wilder. Filthier. And it erupted the moment he dared to spew filth about her. I had killed before, without pause, without guilt. Age, gender, race… none of it ever mattered. All I saw was the life I needed to take.
But this bastard?
I wanted more than his life, I wanted his heart in my hand, still beating, when I crushed it.
“Hey,” he grinned, blood staining his teeth, “what’s with the bloodthirsty glare? It’s not like we’re enemies. We don’t even know each other. Yet, you send that pretty little Alpha away and come here to kill me? Am I missing something, or do you want a piece of his ass too?”
The words detonated inside my head like a bomb,
My claws shredded flesh as blood spattered across us both, but it was that wicked little smirk–so calm, so amused–that cracked the last thread of sanity left inside me.
With a feral roar. I slammed him into the ground. The earth trembled beneath the impact.
But even pinned down, the bastard laughed.
“Heheheh…” he rasped, his voice a sick blend of mockery and malice. “You care that much for that soft li
thing? You really
came running back just for him? Or is it killing you inside that someone else might get to taste what you never could?”
That was it.
I didn’t respond with words. Just rage. Brutal, primal, world–ending rage.
He clawed at my chest, slicing through muscle as if it were paper. I didn’t stop. I couldn’t stop. I drove my elbow into his jaw with a sickening crunch, grabbed his blood–soaked body, and hurled him into a tree. The trunk cracked violently, splinters flying as he slammed into it and dropped—only to rise again.
Grinning
Lips split. Face soaked in blood. Eyes glinting with something far beyond madness.
We collided again like monsters born from the depths of Hell.
“Stop talking about him with your filthy mouth!” I roared.
Claws tour through skin. Fangs snapped. Bone met bone in punishing blows. We didn’t block anymore–we devoured the damage. He bit into my shoulder; I plunged my claws into his ribs. We crashed into rocks, into splintered logs–into anything solid enough to break a body.
The wind howled. The forest shook. But we fought on.
Through gritted, bloodied teeth, he hisseid, “Stop talking about the pretty Alpha? But everything l’in saying…it comes from here He tapped his chest, grin widening. “And these aren’t even mine. These are his thoughts. I am just speaking it loud and trust me I love your traction”
I drove my knee into his gut and gripped his throat again. “What the fuck are you saying? That Fun thinks about Seth
He sat blood in my face and smiled wider. “Who wouldn’t? That pretty lule face, dripping in seductive charm? Even Alpha Ashier can’t look away”
My staze snappeil to Asher. Just beyond the battlefield, he stood frozen, staring at Seraphina as she gripped a rogue by the that interrogating him with desperate fire in her eyes And Asher he looked enchantes, Possessed. Like he was seeing her
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My mind blanked. My breath caught.
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The imposter’s eyes gleamed–and in that moment of hesitation, he lunged. I barely leapt back in time to avoid his claws slashing through my throat.
“I’ve only had this body for a few hours.” he growled, circling me like a predator, “but I see everything. His memories. His desires. He didn’t just feel friendship for Seth. It ran deeper. Much deeper. He licked the blood from his lips. “And it’s still in there, just buried beneath me,
My fist slammed into his face with a bone–shattering crack.
“shut. The fuck. Up!”
“Why should 12” he laughed, dodging my next blow with a fluid backflip, landing like a king atop the bloodstained altar stone. “Don’t like hearing what Finn thought about? Then let me share all his secrets with you.”
I froze. “Secrets?”
“Everyone has them. Even you,” he smirked, stepping down from the altar like royalty descending to judge a peasant. “But his? Oh, they’re delicious. I could tell you everything–who he is, what he really thinks of that pretty Alpha over there and what his intentions are.”
I never liked or disliked Finn. Honestly, I hadn’t even known his name until Seraphina came along and formed a bond with him. But the way she smiled at him…and the way he smiled back?
It made something inside me snap.
Men know how to read other men. And I read him. I had read all of them–Dante, Asher, Reed, Cassius. Every glance, every twitch, every flicker of desire they sent her way. I saw it all.
And it enraged me.
“I’ll make you a deal,” he offered, strolling toward me with arrogance. “I’ll tell you every one of his secrets. But in return, dig a grave and leave. Walk away without this Alpha. Because I’m not giving him up. I like this body. It fits. I’ll rebuild my pack. start over with that stronger Alpha who slaughtered my wolves–and the little one, too. You? You can walk away. Let me live.
Let me win.”
I stared at him, silent..
Then I smiled, cold and merciless. “I have a better plan.”
I half–shifted, my claws gleaming as I stepped forward. “I’ll kill you inside that body. So you never get reborn. Then I’ll burn every trace of your existence from this cursed mountain.”
His grin vanished.
The mask of smug superiority cracked.
“You leave me no choice!” he screamed, and shifted.
We clashed again with monstrous fury Something snapped in my wrist as I blocked a brutal swing. I retaliated by raking my claws down his back, flaying muscle from bone. He roared, spun, elbowed my jaw, tackled me to the ground. His claws came for my throat. I caught them mid–swing and slammed my forehead into his skull with a thunderous crunch.
Only one of us would leave this place alive.
It wouldn’t be hum
Llunged for his heart, class poised to strike-
Suddenly, Seraphina threw herself between us, blocking my attack with her own body:
Behind her. Asher did the same–intercepting the imposter’s next strike and dragging hun away toward the other side of the
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““Stop” she whispered, her voice trembling as she met my eyes–my wolf’s eyes.
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“What the hell do you think you’re doing?” I growled. If I hadn’t stopped in time, my hand would’ve gone clean through her
chest.
“Stop. All of this. Now,” she said, voice low but unyielding.
I shook my head. “I’m not stopping until that thing is dead.”
“You can’t kill him. He’s still Finn.”
My blood boiled at the desperation shining in her eyes, for him. “He’s gone! He’s been completely overtaken! He’s not coming back!”
“He will! I found a way. I know how to bring him back.”
Her hand that was on mine trembled, but it didn’t falter. She wouldn’t let me kill him. Not while she still believed he could be saved. And even if I went after his life after that, I could tell she would block me with everything.
The look in her eyes, for him, was unbearable.
“What if you fail?” I whispered, voice like gravel.
“I won’t,” she said with absolute certainty. “But I need your help.”
My wolf went still
Something in me, against all logic, believed her.
Fine. But I have one condition.”
“What is it?”
I abruptly dropped my hand, letting her stumble forward, then pulled her into my chest. “The second this is over… we leave. Together. Immediately.”
Her eyes met mine. For a moment, something flickered in their depths, something I couldn’t read.
“Okay,” she promised.
Did I imagine it?
She pulled away sharply, turning to the bloodied battlefield where Asher and Finn were locked in brutal combat.
“Asher, now!” she shouted, grabbing my hand and dragging me toward two fig trees. “Rip the root, tie him to the tree! We
jave one minute!”
I didn’t understand. But I obeyed.
I tore a thick root free from the earth while Asher kicked Finn into a tree with a savage grunt, pinning him there as he fought and writhed
“Quick!” Asher bellowed, pressing him back.
I charged forward, root in hand–just as I caught Seraphina in the comer of my eye. Dropping blood onto the grave.
What the hell was she doing.
And then-
“Fun is coming back!” Asher yelled.
My eyes went to Finn’s white eyes that were returning to norinal and then my eyes snapped to Seraphina whose’s amber eyes started turning white as she stood at the edge of the cliff behind the fig trees
My feet stopped and the root dropped my hand.
you just do?” my voice rathe out dow as I realised she took the evil thing into herself and took a step back towards
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-Don’t you dare to do it, 1 shook my head, my wolf speaking with me as my eyes were full of warning. “I swear I will find you and kill you if you…”
“I lied,” she whispered, throwing herself back over the cliff.
My heart dropped into my stomach. “NOOO!!” I raced to the cliff only to be held back by a pair of hands just before I was about to jump, my eyes locked with hers as she mouthed. “I will be back.”
She disappeared under the fog of a cliff.
My mind blanked, my wolf frozen in the depth of my mind. She had planned it all from the beginning. She performed the ritual to break Finn’s curse but jumped off to kill the evil. She jumped into the fog forest.
“I will be back. Her last whisper, her dead white eyes lingered in my mind like a poison
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And then every emotion within me was crushed.
y hand covered my face as I looked at the fog from the gap between my fingers where she disappeared.
