Chapter Thirty Eight: Shattered Glass and Sovereignty

The global feed slashed to black with a vicious electronic screech, plunging the obsidian sanctum into a chaotic, strobing amber haze.

Before the static even cleared, Adrian hauled Mari off the console, slamming her spine against the freezing, reinforced glass with a bone-rattling thud that knocked the breath straight from her lungs.

"You just claimed the whole fucking planet, Queen," Adrian growled, his massive hands gripping her hips so hard it bruised as he ground his thick, aching length flush against her. "Now show them who the fuck owns you."

Mari locked her legs tight around his waist, sinking her nails deep into his corded shoulders and wrenching him down into a bruising, open-mouthed kiss of pure, raging victory.

Kael didn't wait a fraction of a second. His knife hit the marble floor with a sharp clatter as he shoved in beside Adrian, hooking his hands under Mari's thigh to hoist her higher. Kael's mouth crashed against her neck, sucking hard enough to leave a purple-black bruise over her racing pulse as he yanked her head back by her hair.

"Let the bastards out there watch their god get wrecked," Kael panted, his eyes dilated with manic hunger.

Ren dropped to his knees on the blood-slicked deck, burying his face against her stomach and kissing a frantic, sobbing path upward, his hands shaking as they gripped her calves. "You're the system now, Mari! We're wired straight into your pulse!"

Sera laughed—a feral, snapping sound—and pressed her freezing body hard against Mari's flank. With a violent flick, she dragged a finger of pure sub-zero frost down Mari's spine, sending a shocking, white-hot jolt of ice and fever through Mari's core that tore a loud, shameless shriek from her lips. Sera's ice-cold palm clamped over Mari's bare breast, pinching the nipple until it ached. "We rule the ashes!"

Lena was already groveling at their feet, sobbing with delirious, unhinged ecstasy as she pressed frantic, wet kisses to Mari's ankles.

Adrian didn't give her a second to breathe. He gripped her hips and slammed forward, driving his heavy, massive cock deep inside her in one brutal, earth-shattering thrust.

Mari screamed, her back arching hard off the glass as white-hot lightning detonated behind her eyes.

Adrian hammered into her over and over, a relentless, punishing machine of muscle and heat while Kael and Ren devoured her from every angle. The world outside was trembling at her command, but inside this room, Mari shattered into pieces, completely swallowed by the violent, desperate worship of her pack.