Tempted By The Alpha Of Manhattan

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that looked out at a brick wall. Usually, it was just me and my messy clothes. But with Meredith Stevens dying on my bed,

atex gloves. He was a guy who'd seen too much and said too little, the perfe

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Her skin was very pale, almost see-through. But the cut on her side wa

ut her body was hot. It was like holding a hot kettle. I carried her to the kitch

shlight. Keep it ste

ed the light. I stood at the head of the

bottle of antiseptic. "I don't have enough anesthesia to

g me?" I hissed

ey were the scary, beautiful gold I had seen in her apartment. They looked like melted metal, bright and strong, even while she wa

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hear my jacket ripping. Her nails cut through my jacket and shirt and dug into my skin. For

ost in some kind of fever. I stopped thinking li

so only she could hear me. "Just stay with me. It's

let go. She looked at me like I was the

ed burned. Meredith let out a broken gasp that made me want to hit something. Her body lifted

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a loud ringing sound that filled the quiet kitchen. The piece was dul

love. "A piece of the blade broke off inside. High-grade silver. That's why the infec

nife in 2026?" James said, d

oid stuff. Like he thought he'

tevens was dying on my kitchen table. I just watched her eyes finally cloud over, and sh

the billionaire "Iron Goddess" under my old blue comforter in my tiny bedroom-but it was the only place sh

off the table so hard it could take the paint o

asked, her voic

leaning agains

, her eyes red from crying. "And why did she act like that? The g

ready to talk about this. Not wh

mess. Just... try to get some sleep on th

still, breathing shallow but steady. Her phone, sitting on the nightst

screen. It was a text from that Unknown Number a

EREDITH. QUEENS IS A LONG WAY FROM HOME. I'LL GIVE Y

ank. To get

just enough to see the street. It was late, and the streetli

ken streetlight. Its lights were off, but I could see the soft smoke

nthouse. He didn't just know she was hurt. He had foll

I'd lied to Miller, I'd ignored a mutated DNA report

tten myself into?" I whi

ext flashed in my mind:

nd he knew exactly where we were. I reached for my gun on