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food turned to ash in my mouth. All I could fee
"I'm taking you home," he sai
vy silence as we drove throug
, Kyla," Caleb finally said, his kn
nd, Caleb. He's an Alpha. The Alpha. And I'm his...
glect. The arranged bond I never wanted. The final humiliation at the funeral. And the
erruption, his jaw tighten
erted spot next to a city park. He killed the engine and turned to fac
rough with disbelief. "Kyla, you're being naive. An Alpha like that doesn
w, knocking the air from my lungs. A new, colder
t me help you. At Sterling Capital, you're my employee. He can't
wanted to touch my face. He seemed to think better of it, letting h
is voice dropping to a low, i
rely alone. But a part of me felt a deep unease. I didn't want to dra
and waited until he saw the lights of
iny flicker of warmth in my chest from Caleb's promise. It
e P
a
g at the bars of my control. I'd left the restaurant, dragging
of Kyla was burned into my mind. Her smile. The way she had looked at that man,
laughed
east
my house. A duty. A responsibility. I had thought her wea
ith a fire in her eyes, sitting across fr
control wa
the study door b
" I sn
. He didn't turn on the lights, just stood
d?" I demanded, my
of my desk. It was slightly creased, as if it had been retrieved from the bottom of a drawe
l. "Miss Dalton asked me to give this to you personally a week ago. I recovered it from
And he had chosen this moment, with my ra
e elegant French script on the front. Kyla's handwr
harp, cut through the haze of my
. My eyes scanned the text, catching on
and brutal in the moonlight
for Mate Bond R
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