Elara's POV
Blood poured from Orion's chest, spreading dark across his shirt.
He looked down at the wound as though it belonged to someone else.
There wasn't a trace of pain on his face.
His Alpha healing was probably already closing the wound beneath the fabric, repairing the damage faster than I could inflict it. Faster than I could make him feel even a fraction of what he had put us through.
He looked back at me, disbelief in his eyes—and something beneath it that almost looked like hurt.
"For him?" he said. "You'd actually kill me for the man you cheated with?"
"Yes."
I didn't blink.
"I want you dead. It's the only way Mia and I get to live."
I drove the scalpel in deeper, my hand steady even as the rest of me shook.
Celeste screamed and shoved me away with both hands.
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