van
e bed, watchi
g on her temple and the angry red scrape on her knee. Her brow was furrowed, her lips pressed i
er forehead, to feel the softness of her skin. I stopped myse
pulled the door quietly shut and
is salt-and-pepper hair was perfectly combed, his suit immaculate. He was the only person I trusted with m
atly, his eyes scanning my rain-soa
girl in the west guest room. She's
on I'd seen from him in years. Without another wo
ctuary, a place of cold logic and hard data. I sat at my
Beau
headlines, each one mor
Pack: A Scandalous Af
n: Chloe Beaumont's H
ng. Chloe, looking disheveled, in the arms of a smirking, heavyset man I recognized as Bud George. The angle wa
. The temperature in the study
her reputation and force her into a marriage that would benefit them. They
nd Alistair walked in. He close
I cleaned and dressed them. But her vitals are all over the place. She's suffering fro
the screen. "Gi
She's the adopted daughter of the Raymond Pack's Alpha. Her marriage to Bud George is
hey can win," I s
s still unstable. Your father is weak, your stepmother is ambitious, and your half-brother is a fool, but a dange
omentary lapse in judgment. He coul
Alistair," I said, my
"Fine. But don't say I didn't warn
ngered. He was right about my family. They were circling, wai
more than wil
r room, pushing the door open a crack. I
sheets tangled around her legs. A sheen
, her voice thick w
sn't me... l
ke a physical thing, a cold spike in the air. I wanted to
fragile, almost tender. A single name escaped her lips, a broken
ili
n the silent ro
hell was
It was a raw, primitive jealousy I had never experienced befor
n my head. She is
ilio was. A past lover? A
past. I was
d I would make damn sure that my name was t
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