The Lycan Alpha's Forgotten Mate

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vy, suffocating scent that clung to my skin. I curled tighter into the corner, my knees

groaned open, slicin

out of the room. The scent of blizzard and cedar flooded the small space, instantly overpowering the smell of rot. It was

ging shut behind him. His ice-blue eye

ed over me, compelling my trembling limbs to obe

the rough stone wall as he stalked closer. He sto

e was a low growl, his gaze dropping

whispered, my voice shaking.

electricity-The Physical Surge-zapped through me, hot and undeniable. I gasped, trying to pull a

aw a flicker of something wild in his gaze, a flash of gold bleeding into the blu

uddenly, releasing my h

, stunned

let you rot here." He turned his b

t of the cell and running toward the sliver of light at the end of

I didn't stop. I was barefoot, my feet scraping against the co

right the

rking me to a halt. I cried out as I was spu

ing me sneered, his grip bru

uggling uselessly. "The

or scoffed, tightening hi

rated through the air, free

Her.

heads. Dimitri strode toward us, his fury palpable. It wasn't the c

stumbling. "If you ever touch her again," Dimitri hissed, hi

grabbed my wrist-the one the warrior had bruised. His thumb brushed over the re

me toward a black armored SUV parked

or and rounded the vehicle, I realized with a sinking feeling that

itr

I sat at the head of the long mahogany table, my face a mask

ais off at her crumbling apartment. I had left warriors to watch the peri

ood near the fireplace, her hand resting on the shoulder of her son, Bryson. "Grafton's will is clear. The heir must

"Therefore, as Grafton's widow, I assume t

s eyes gleamed with triumph. She thought sh

, my voice cutting

e the High Elder had handed me privately before the mee

, my son. She

nipulated me, drugged me, and tied me to a

ent," I announced, standing up

ltered. "Impossible

nding Contract was signed by my father before his de

, her composure cracking.

door. I didn't want this. I didn't want a mate, especially not a weak one. But I

so every wolf in the vicinity could hear t

to the Great Hall. Now. And show her