ar's
eeks of alliance negotiations, threats, and enough po
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rifying foreign Alphas into sign
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op looking for Viya Wil
her at Mo
e, not in a crimson dress, not with whiskey in her hand, not with the broken, dan
owed my gaz
thi
was not
ad raised her under Blackwood protection after her parents' deaths. I had watched a frightened girl grow int
her adult transformation c
d called to
etween us had flickered but not roared, and fear ha
not her destined mate, if the weak bond was only c
ucius Wild
cision o
ing a mask and looking as if one
er alone, several
Olsen,
st
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nged m
ide her, intending only to keep her safe. No
rned to me
meeting you h
me. Or she wanted me
nearly destroye
drunk,
eno
on dress beneath her coat made her look
l your husband,
pened. "My hus
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one e
nct in me w
did
er. "You don't
you are i
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hit hard beca
not sen
glittered behind the mask. "That was cleaner, wasn't it? You didn't
iy
use tha
t vo
u care when you've spent thr
d that. E
high, and all rational tho
urt. "Mine," Olsen insist
wolf," I
second, recognition flared in
ou want
trol s
thing uniquely her-sent fire racing through my veins. I devoured her mouth with ye
she kissed me back with equal desperation. The sound went str
her stool and against my body. I needed her closer.
amelessly against her hip, and I did
hat she was my Luna. Yet reason reminded me she was merely flirting with
gh my sanity, yet I s
d. "Look carefully at
eks flushed, eyes bri
removed
aid with false surpri
no
not
at kiss mea
p and wounded. "You ta
ickly. "You sh
t have
roze the ai
oes tha
swaying. "It means you'r
her arm. "Le
't get to save me when it's c
iy
ackwood. I'm sure you're very go
e walke
et
ai
ious growl in my mind. "Some
d was d
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ma
son
g about Viya Wilde's marriage. Medical records. Pack reports.
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