nore
ring through the blinds felt like an assault. My body ached, and the phantom scen
ssage from Jodi Pollard, my best fri
, the kind that sells five-hundred-dollar candles. A sales associate was holding up a plush cashmere blanket for his inspection
ughtful? Picking out gifts for his little Omega
face as he considered the soft fabric. He had neve
ht, his voice sliced into m
in the manor study. Get them. I need t
me. I wanted to scream, to
est edge of an Alpha's command, pressed against my mind. "And sta
after what I'd seen last night, after the picture on my phone, w
tal voice clipped and sharp, and
s family's ancestral home, a sprawling stone monument to Dixon power. I
the box of files tucked away in a corner, just as he'd said.
go to his off
my apartment.
he scent of him, the feel of him. I dressed carefully, choosing a pair of tailored black trouse
nally pulled up to the gleaming
separate. I had never been invited into this one, never introduced to his staff, never so much as photographed beside him at a company
p makeup and a name tag that read 'Ashley Whi
er tone implying I was somethi
or Cristian Dixon,"
ment?" she asked, her l
N
eting." She dismissed me with a wave of her hand, alre
I could have announced myself as the Luna and watched her gr
marble countertop. "Just tell
y as the connection clicked in her brain. Sargent
a, his second-in-command, rushed out. He saw me and immedi
d with surprise. "We weren't exp
to chalk white. I could feel her
p the box and walked past her toward the priv
ened, I stepped into a corridor of hushed gray carpet a
the hall, the large oak doors slight
femini
and familiar, coiled in my gut. Against
and soothing. "It's okay. Do
r burning in my lungs. No mo
d the d
ade the blood in m
f it was Angelena. She was leaning forward, one hand resting on his shoulder, the
evastating. It looked like he was holding her, sheltering her between his body and the desk. It w
entered, their private
shattered
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