a P
d for just the two of us. The air was thick with unspoken fury. Aries closed the door and
nally asked, his voice fl
s my only chance to claw back a future for myself. "I want compensa
their future," I said, trying to sound like I was negotiating a business deal, n
and poured himself a glass of water, his movements
, cash," I said. I s
with the private garden. It's unde
nd, "a legally binding severance agreement. From this moment on, I have no connect
enetrating eyes, as if trying to see into my soul. The pressure of his silence was imme
the Pack?" He finally let out a low, humorless la
he world outside is dangerous for our kind. Rogues, rival Packs, even human hunters. You think what you learned in college w
his title to create a chasm between us. "Whether I live or die is my
Alpha aura intensifying with each step, pressi
the familiar scent of cedar and storm on him. It was a s
is voice a dangerous rasp. "Don't forget, Kira, I am the Alpha. I can
p, but you can't shut everyone up. The moment I disappear, people in the Pack will
inner wolf whimpered in fear, but I he
other for what fel
our demands," he said finally, each wo
plummeted.
dded, his t
ed my h
ler's wing, sign the final documents in front of an Elder. The Pac
about it," he said, his tone absolute. "You
had denied everything I wanted and was now i
grounds!"
e Alpha," he answered coldly
live a decent life as an affiliate of the
e with nothing but his cold silh
hadn't won my freedom; I had been loc
g to do? What f
. I stopped on a name: Joe Hayes. My adoptive father. Maybe... maybe he coul
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