SOPHIA’S POV
I looked down at my phone. My stomach dropped when I saw Damien’s name on the caller ID.
"Hello?" I answered, shooting a warning glance at Zade to stay quiet.
"Sophia, where are you?" Damien’s voice was cold. "George asked me to come pick you up. Are you still at the Riverside Hotel?"
I glanced at Zade, who was watching me with an expression that looked like betrayal. His jaw was clenched. His amber eyes were filled with something that might have been hurt or anger....or both.
"Yes, I’m still here," I said into the phone
"Stay there. I’m pulling up now." There was a pause. "Are you alone?"
The question made my wolf growl "That’s none of your concern anymore."
"Sophia-"
"I’ll be right out." I hung up before he could argue, shoving my phone back into my pocket.
Zade took a long drag from his cigarette.
"Running back to him already?" His voice was cold.
" I’m not running back to him. George asked him to pick me up." I moved toward the garden path. "Thank you for the... conversation. But I need to go."
Before Zade could say anything, I turned and walked away quickly. My heart pounded.
I made my way back toward the hotel, planning to meet Damien at the front entrance. But as I got closer, I noticed something was wrong.
The music had stopped. And the noise coming from inside wasn’t the cheerful sounds of a cocktail party. It was screaming.
My wolf went on high alert. I ran, reaching the back entrance to the ballroom just as someone crashed through the French doors. The glass shattered everywhere.
I ducked behind a pillar and looked inside. My blood turned cold at what I saw.
The elegant ballroom had been transformed into chaos. Tables were overturned, champagne flutes shattered across the marble floor, decorations were torn down. People were screaming, running for the exits, pushing past each other in panic.
And in the center of it all was the man from earlier - the one who’d tried to touch Dahlia.
But now he wasn’t trying to be subtle. He was wielding a machete, swinging it wildly as he shouted something I couldn’t make out over the screams.
My enhanced wolf hearing caught fragments: "-teach that bitch-" "-think she can humiliate me-" "-show her-"
He was looking for someone, looking for me.
I’d humiliated him in front of all these people by publicly stopping his assault on Dahlia. And now he’d snapped, coming back with a weapon to exact revenge.
I needed to get security, needed to call the police, needed to-


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