ron
, was sweating profusely. He was practic
y staff member looking. We'll find h
e was a mask of cold fury. "My nephew is missing. In your club, Tucker. Do
ain doors to the
re washed over the room, silencing ever
ckled around me. The low-level wolves and humans in the room a
pleasantries. I stopped
was low, a controlled rum
ll figure stumbled through a serv
e
lanced through me. Julian and
the touch. A fever. Rage, cold and absolute, began to build in my chest. I slowly
my suit trousers with one small, desperate hand. With the other, he pointed insiste
contact. He never expressed a need fo
esperate, pleading anxiety I had never seen before. The f
, I gave a sharp nod to my he
n of grown men in dark suits down the hallway. He didn't hesitate, mak
for a key. One powerful kick and the doo
he first
hind him, Juli
ed us made my breath
tangled in the wreckage of a broken ladder
nds hovering over her face, a soft,
see her face clearly. It was pale, etched with pain, but
t through me. My inner wolf, a beast that had been silent and restles
her. Her breathing was shallow. The back of her s
the exposed skin of her wri
urrent so intense it felt like lightning. It arc
ils di
a
possible, she was fragile, human, wolfless, the Moon Goddess would not be so cruel-but my wolf was already roaring. It didn't ca
rotect.
not a
the oldest curse of my kind, and it had j
e betrayed nothing. But my hands-my hands were already moving, sliding beneath h
htness that was both terrifying and exhilarating. The m
ed out and clutched a strand of her dark hair that had fallen
of the club without a backward glance, leaving a r
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