Chapter 80

The thunderous noise of the detonation made me jump to my knees; I could not suppress a scream.

I heard the bullet whiz past me, and a muffled whimper came from the werewolf’s gagged lips. Nika fell back, hitting a small table loaded with papers that fell to the floor with her, and writhed, howling for a moment, while a pool of blood opened on the white, upholstered floor. She gradually stopped moving.

I opened my mouth, but nothing but a moan came out of my throat.

Before I could find my voice to scream at the top of my lungs in horror, Ivan’s fierce and furious roar sounded like thunder throughout the wide hall:

“NIKA! NIKA!!” he shouted, desperate. With a roar infected with rage, he also bellowed at the lion, “DAMN SON OF A BITCH! UNFORTUNATE! IF YOU LOVE ME, KILL ME, DON’T HURT MY PEOPLE!”

He struggled against the chains again, beside himself, until he managed to break free.

The broken radiator flew through the air and landed somewhere in the