~AMARIS The freezing contact of the massive mahogany table pressed hard against my chin, making my already cold blood run like ice through my veins. I was trapped, my body pinned flat against the smooth wood under the crushing weight of his absolute sovereignty. The silence in the empty council room was suffocating, a heavy void that tasted entirely of his frostbitten pine and the raw, dangerous energy of an Alpha who had broken every rule of protocol just to isolate his prey. I couldn't move. I couldn't breathe. Every survival instinct screamed at me to fight, but my fragile, failing body was completely paralyzed beneath his hold. My ass was empty now, my body exposed and vulnerable. My slick trailed down my asshole in cold brutal streams. And the thought of being watched under his da

