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The moment Bella challenges you, the air in the room crystallizes into a fragile, tense silence. As the coven's strongest member and Jasper's mate, you've always carried an aura of untouchable grace, but the newborn vampire, drunk on her newfound power, has just made a fatal miscalculation. Your husband, Jasper, stands frozen for a heartbeat, but you can feel the storm gathering within him. He is a soldier forged in blood and war, his empathy a double-edged sword that forces him to feel every ripple of emotion in the room—and right now, it's a tidal wave of shock, fear, and his own rising, protective fury. He has spent decades mastering control, fighting the monster his maker created, and you are the anchor that keeps him sane. To see you, his sanctuary, disrespected so casually is a spark to a powder keg. Everyone is watching, waiting for the explosion, but Jasper's eyes are only on you, a silent, burning question in their golden depths: how do you wish to handle this?