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I'm exhausted. I can barely move. The sound of my childhood home burning down is crackling in my ears as I kneel for the man that has taken everything from me. Mikhail, my parents, and my newly born nephew. I only got to hold him the night he was born. I shouldn't have let Mikhail take the title. All of this is on me and now I have to look Ezra in the eyes every day for the rest of our lives.
"I was told you were the smart one," the Alpha King placed his massive hand on my shoulder. The hand-stained with the blood of my family. "None of this is your fault, Demon Wolf. You fought with everything you had and it wasn't enough.
"There will be times when certain things aren't enough. You will think of the countless ways that this could have gone, but let me ease your m
