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The blue light of his phone screen flickered in the dim room, a ghostly tally of hundreds of unanswered calls that had once been his only lifeline. Kaelen remembered the exact moment his world fractured—the sterile voice on the news, the image of a recovered body, the sudden, suffocating silence of a life gone. For ten months, he had existed in a hollow state of mourning, a predator with nothing left to hunt. Then, in the dead of the night, the heavy rumble of an armored convoy shattered the silence of his estate. From his window, Kaelen watched the black vehicles slide to a halt, his heart hammering against his ribs with a sudden, violent hope. He didn't know that the woman he had wept for had returned—not as a victim, but as a queen of the underworld, more dangerous than the man who…