Evelynn POV
Rafe’s gaze flicked between us. “You know that thing?”
I swallowed hard, forcing the words through a tightening throat. “He was Varrick’s Beta. My second-in-command.”
Aldric’s lips pulled into something that wasn’t quite a smile. “Was.”
The word rasped out, twisted, low. He took another step forward - too smooth for a man that broken, too steady for someone that burned. The firelight caught on something crawling under his skin. Faint veins of silver, pulsing like molten metal.
My wolf’s hackles rose. "Eve. That’s not him. That’s something inside him."
Rafe’s tone dropped to a warning growl. “He’s infected.”
Aldric’s eyes snapped toward him, silver bleeding into the whites until they glowed like twin moons.
“Infected?” His laugh came out hollow. “No. No. I'm Chosen.”
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