The Wolfless Bride's Secret Alpha Husband

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xploded between us, shifting from a subtle trace into an all-c

ratic thuds, my blood roaring in my ears so loudl

gh the hollow ache in my chest, clicking into place like

ivefold surge of the Fated Mate recognition ritual, an ancie

n felt

instantly, replaced by a raw, primal hunger t

not with tenderness, but with the brutal, starving

ckwave ripped through my skin, scorching awa

te bond, my hands moved on their own, clutching the lapels of his suit jack

s, freezing cedar, and burning skin, an overwhelming storm t

sunlight was slicing through the gap in the

ed, as though I had been run over by a freight tr

ical blow, and I sat up abruptly, clutching the dark si

floor, and my hands shook violently as I scrambled out of bed,

, something bright on the nigh

red-dollar bill was pinned

red do

placed by a searing wave of white-

ating me like a common, nameless prostitute

paper in my fist until the edges dug into my palm, and

wledge the cursed bond that had betrayed my body

down the empty, silent hallway, des

tian

onsole in the hotel's private security hub, a fresh

practically running through the revolving glass doors of th

Lycan beast was thrashing against its mental cage, letti

thoughts. Mine! Go tear the ci

s and sun-warmed skin still clung to t

nd Acie stepped into the dim roo

me," Acie reported, his tone formal. "Her name is Ans

g across my face. "That pathetic, bankrup

file. "And according to their pack records,

l identification photo of the girl-large, stubborn

how those same eyes had watered with

see what kind of creature had stumbled into my path, but according to the bedro

cing the heavy obsidian signet ring on my right h

ordered, my voice dropping to a gravelly, letha

Mejia," Acie said

ver the sprawling glass towers of the Silver Peak me

urmured, watching the empty street wher