Chapter 3. Beauty with Bite

Lex’s POV

Fueled by years of relentless Alpha training… and by rage. The kind that burns from a wound so deep it never truly heals.

My mother.

Her screams still echoed in my mind.

The day the Rogue King ripped the Luna’s stone from her neck—and murdered her in front of me. That day carved a canyon of fury inside me, and tonight, I let it flood.

I tore his throat out, slowly, savagely, until the only sound was blood splashing across the dirt. The satisfaction of killing him tortuously myself was unexplainable as peace washed over me but in the middle of the war and in my fury, I had lost her. The mysterious black beauty.

She was gone.

The mysterious she-wolf who had stolen my breath and vanished before I could even ask he