"Did you really think I'd let a pathetic middle-manager decide how my story ends?" Natasha whispered as Madison's body hit the marble floor with a heavy, lifeless thud.
The remote detonator slipped from his limp fingers, skittering across the blood-slicked tile right to my feet. I dropped down instantly, kicking it into the shadowed abyss of the open elevator shaft before he could even register what he had done.
"You're too late, James," Natasha sneered, stepping over Madison's body as two massive rogue wolves materialized out of the dark behind her, their yellow eyes glowing like toxic embers. "The core servers are already wiped. The Council mainframe belongs to the Shadow Alliance now."
"You don't have the master key," James growled, his voice vibrating with a terrifying, primal frequ
