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na's
our claim a
dominance meant to drive any Omega to her knees. My legs s
the sharp, clean smell of cedar that clung to him. It was the scent I had breath
tence. His handsome face was a mask of cold impatience, his tailored
Pack's Beta, a woman of no rank or mate-bond to her name-had somehow become the center of my husband's world. "The Mo
past would have been shattered by these words, her world crumbling. But the woman standing here now onl
ority. "I know this is unfair to you. But as an Alpha, I have a duty to protect my Pack, and the p
l blow. "You can still remain in the Pack as my sec
handsome, powerful, and profoundly selfish. His brown eyes held no guilt, only a fanat
nt scar on my right index finger, a relic from my work restoring ancient artifacts.
was soft, but it cut
across his face. "What did you say?" His voice turned to ice,
ct should have bowed me, but I had no inner wolf to obey, and that hollo
aid, no. I will not voluntarily renounce my c
it hardened into raw fury. "Alanna Cruz! Don't be a fool! You're a wolfless Omega
flaw" as an Omega, the reason he had always looked down on
eld. It insulated me from his emotional manipul
usand times ready on my tongue. "I won't 'voluntarily
The anger on his face sol
, my voice as calm as if I were reciting a recipe. "'I, Alanna Cruz, reject you, Brannon Hoffman, as my mate
u know what that means? The severing of the bond! The pain will
rannon had simply cast me aside, letting me wither away in isolation witho
uching my lips for the first time since my rebir
w, as if seeing a stra
full moon, ten days from now, in fron
til that ceremony is complete, Elenore Gay is not to set foot in this ma
legitimize his relationship with Elenore, he had to
me, his eyes burning holes into my soul. He thought he held all the cards, but he didn't kn
could feel the war inside him-the fury, the
rds through his teeth. "Are y
" I replied with a slight nod, my qu
jumped, rolling off the edge. He flinched back from it-a small, instinctive recoil, the wa
red, rising to his full, intimidating heig
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