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So, I invited Evelyn to a girls' night out. We partied until dawn. She thought it was a send-off celebration before her wedding. I had arranged everything—the venue, the guests, even the drinks.

She never suspected a thing.

I drugged her drink. When the effects kicked in, I lured her out of the house to my father’s hotel, far outside our pack’s territory.

Once she was settled in one of the VIP rooms—rooms rarely used due to their cost—the men I had arranged entered. I handed them a bottle of poison and left them to do the rest.

What I didn’t know was that Cornello had seen us entering the hotel that night.

I had taken the back door of my house, parked my car in the backyard, and used a secret entrance at the hotel. I had planned every detail carefully to keep it a secret.

But Cornello, that chronic womanizer, had been in on

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