e Bent
low voice commanded f
over broken glass-deep, cal
site door. The cabin was lit only by a faint ambient strip along the r
risp white collar was open at the throat, exposing pale skin over corded mu
yes that pinned
d silver. He looked down at me not with fury, but with the cold detachment o
ing my torn skirt over my bleedin
earms on his knees, his gaze dropping to the floor mats whe
ed Beta wearing wire-rimmed glass
al is locking dow
d me said without looking away from my face.
ood, Mr.
lk
ttural roar, and through the tinted glass, I saw two Page enforcers dive for their lives as our
rantically jerking the latch
onic locks
re rage. "Stop this car! I am an off
just ran out of a boardroom with a bleeding face and shredded clothes, leaving a
pped, lunging for the master co
touched the button
my jaw, his thumb driving into the pressure point beneath my ear
eat surged from his skin straight into mine,
" he comma
ke a falling wall. Even without an inner wolf, my human biology locked in primal
r. "You walk into those streets right now, and Page enforcers will have you in an unmarked van before you cross the avenue. They
lf," I whispered, t
t your feet from broken g
ling lips. Something dark, ancient, and violently possessive flickered in those
shed behind an impen
ingers pulling away as if
at, clutching my throat, rubbing t
ed out a folded white linen handk
g his profile to the rain-streaked wi
rost. I wanted to fling it into his face, but the stinging pain in my soles w
knee, was a heavy signet ring of dark silver, e
taking me?" I a
ins instructed me to deliver you to your register
belief. "You're
I had a use for you tonight? You are a disaster. G
Arthur and Martha were there. My adoptive father had spent thirty y
cracked pavement of the lower Northside, and pulled
ived, sir,"
d. I shoved the door open and
seconds, but I didn't care. I bol
front doors, my h
ards littering the vestibule. The steel fram
" I sc
g them three at a time unti
3B stood
traight down the center, the deadbo
inside. "
The bookshelf overturned, family photographs sto
d Martha
driven four inches deep into the pine coffe
ngle piece of heavy parchment, stamped
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