Selene's POV
The guards quickly surrounded the Beta, tackling him to the ground. He went down hard, his silver blade clattering across the floor. But even as they pinned him, even as they twisted his arms behind his back, he was laughing.
"It's too late!" he shrieked, his voice breaking with hysteria. "The silver blade is deadly! No miracle can save him now! He's dead! Gone!"
Rage exploded through me like a wildfire.
"Get him out of here!" I roared. "Get him out of my sight!"
Abel grabbed the Beta by the collar and dragged him towards the door, but I stopped them with a single word.
"Wait."
They all froze.
I looked at the Beta, letting him see everything I was feeling. The rage. The hatred. The promise of violence.
"If anything happens to Victor," I said quietly, "I will tear you
