Unchained Fury

Maverick’s POV

The courtyard had erupted into chaos the moment Valerie’s chains broke. For a heartbeat, even I had forgotten to breathe. The sight of her hurling Malachi into the dirt, her fists rising and falling like fire itself, shook something in me that I didn’t think could be shaken anymore. We had all thought the chains unbreakable. We had thought Malachi untouchable. Yet here she was, prov