Breaking Her Spirit

ALPHA GARRICK

"I see why even her mate rejected her."

The words left my mouth with cold precision, hanging in the dead silence of the hallway. It was a calculated strike, designed to locate the deepest, most agonizing wound in her soul and rip it wide open. My intention was to shatter whatever pitiful fragments of pride she still clung to, and the result was instant. The sheer, unyielding defian