The True Mate

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a surge of unease

ery soul be

self looking in

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were lost in her beauty, tracing ev

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her pain the moment s

threw the axe asid

etched my arm

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is

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peated inside my hea

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make sure

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rough the trees as

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start meaning

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in her eyes made my

replaced by a fury

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es lunged at me

d I leaned aside just in time-

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fell, but as I stumbled, my hand clos

hed myself upright, swinging th

nst its jaw, sending the

r wolf struc

rough my shoulder as its fa

ied to shake the

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formed mi

eat, I forgo

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nd strong enough to

wasn'

charging st

smashed with the tr

nged

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inside m

gleam flashed a

isted the wolf bi

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its fangs tear

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f it m

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d into its ribs

y vision, she was fig