a
delivered to the Presidential Suite a
nching the bridge of his nose as tension
en festering all day sha
barbaric traditions he'd fought tooth and nail to m
th America, with tens of thousands of wolves under his iron fist,
th
s pure
led from the leather chair across from his desk, sp
n-command, Beta in name but often th
fed the fire already eati
neath us," Kaius muttered, reaching
throat was the only hone
es for a breeding female like
agree to it? You've told half a dozen families to
w, dangerous growl, pacing like a cag
l answer, even if neit
eyes still blazing with defiance desp
n whose disappointment co
efore I die, Kai. Just one. Is
r than necessary, the crystal ring
ce in his voice. "Territory expansion, exclusive shipping routes, pr
rategist. "She should make it through the birth. Once the heir arr
g his shoulders to shake off the cr
ffocating. The
his nightmar
rdinal
e lobby bowed their heads as Kaius pass
ested, Alpha," his head of security murmured
aff access without your
orrow's power plays-board meetings, quarterly projections, th
rld tilted o
into him like a
uckle blooming under summer lightning.
ly. His pulse exploded, blood r
th his skin, every in
snarled, pacing frantically.
residual traces of heat suppressants. Maybe the hotel's expens
re to be distracted by phantom sc
ulfill a contrac
a Walton and
ped out onto the top floor, his foo
-stronger this time. Clos
rational thought. He followed it like a man possessed, heart pounding with an urgenc
icked. The door
-to-ceiling windows, painting e
en he
hair fanned across silk pillows like spilled starligh
hing in the delicate hollows of her throat. She was smaller than he'd expected,
Trembling with desperate need. Her b
h
the gradual, cyclic hea
ificial. Che
ing from deep in his chest li
ustrial-grade heat inducers. Left her here like
him again with the forc
ofia
Ome
consciousness like a nucle
very atom of his being, unde
is destined other half. Drugged. Vulnerab
odlust rising like a tsunami. [RI
tight his knuckles went bone-white, ra
this situation wa
ed with primitive satisfaction.
indlink his Beta and launch an immediate war against Walton's tr
ender fingers brushing against
oice cracked and raw like broke
arched involuntarily, a puppet dancing to the s
om draped in intimate darkness. Only the sound of their ragged breat
ng her delicate wrist. He could feel her puls
fever. That sweet, intoxicating scent mixed with the salt of de
ike mainlining
anaged to ask, his voice
er hand clawing weakly at his chest.
aius's sanity snappe
words left her
off her body like it had
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