Fury Unleashed: The Awakening Alpha Nira novel Chapter 22

Chapter 22 The Performance

Nira’s POV:

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“You’re going to play the piano too?” Janice’s voice dripped with fake sweetness as it rang in my

ear.

“Nope.” I said calmly, pushing down the disgust in my chest. “I don’t play.”

“Pfft!”

“Haha!” Laughter erupted from the crowd once again.

Rhett, trying way too hard to impress, piled on, “What’s she gonna do then? Teach us how to dust furniture?”

More laughter came.

Janice looked thrilled. Exactly the moment she’d been waiting for.

I placed my hand gently on the edge of the piano, then looked at her. “I don’t play piano. But I do play violin.”

She blinked, caught off guard. “Well, that’s a shame,” she said quickly. “We didn’t plan for that tonight.”

Then she leaned in close and whispered so only I could hear, her tone sharp and smug, “What, you picked an instrument we don’t have just to get out of it?”

Before I could respond, another voice cut through the room.

“I’ve got one.”

We both turned. Vera stood there, gaze calm, presence commanding.

I gave her a small smile as our eyes met. She nodded back respectfully.

“Is that Vera from Emberhall Atelier? She’s gorgeous.”

“I heard her atelier’s backed by a seriously powerful pack. No one really knows who, though.”

Whispers swept through the crowd.

Vera ignored them all. She just looked at me and said, “I have my violin with me. You’re

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Chapter 22 The Performance

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“Thank you.” I took it from her hands, then turned toward Janice with a smile. “You planning to stand up here the whole time and watch me play?”

Like a servant. I didn’t say the word out loud, but she caught it.

“Ugh.” Janice’s face soured, and she stepped down, stomping back toward Jenna,

Jenna leaned in and scolded her quietly, “That was too much, Janice. If Nira embarrasses herself, she takes the whole Soren name down with her.”

I tuned the strings with a few quick notes, letting them ring out clear and cold. Then I took a breath and focused.

The hall fell quiet.

At first, the melody drifted gently through the room, soft and soothing, like a breeze slipping through the trees. People leaned in, their chatter fading.

Then, little by little, the energy shifted.

The music surged, bold and intense. Like thunder rolling through a battlefield, every note struck with weight and fire.

Thump. Thump. Thump. It felt like war drums were pounding just behind their ears.

Upstairs, Kade froze the moment the music changed. His expression darkened. He clutched his head and barked out a warning to the others.

“Don’t listen!”

But it was too late. The sound had already taken hold.

Everyone was locked in, completely under its spell. They couldn’t hear him anymore, couldn’t even think. The music swallowed them whole.

Eyes glazed over. Some stared in shock, others with crazed excitement. One by one, wolves started to emerge–fangs, claws, glowing eyes. The hunger in the room turned feral.

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