ta Ch
entral Healing Sanctuary made my stomach
. Please, prep the operating room!" I gasped, slamming my ID
rgency cranial surgery, Luna. The fee is fifty thousand gold
handing over my high
eped with a ha
the nurse sa
assing her another one. The money in that account came from m
eclined
pitying. "I'm sorry, Miss. Alpha Hazen issued a territory-wide
veins. The air in my
ndmother as leverage to force me to crawl back and apologize to his mistress! The sheer, monstrous cruelty of it sliced through my che
pulled out my phone an
.. Ri
a. Hazen is busy comforting me right now. He said if you're calling about y
before I cou
, my vision blurring, when a shar
the stray dog runni
the Sanctuary's VIP anti-aging clinic, strolled into the lobby flanked by her p
udly, drawing the attention of everyone in the lobby. "This is what happens when a
ndmother's life. "Vivienne, please. My grandmother is dying. L
delight. She stepped closer, her cheap
ve you the fertility injection right now," Vivienne demanded, pointing at the c
e doctor's hand, a violent sh
tearing through my veins, treating me like nothing more than a worthless breeding machine. And now, with my unborn pup growin
pat, my voice drippin
sted with fury. "Yo
e quiet, dimly lit stairwell at the corner of the lobby. Only ten minu
olently. I was co
out the heavy, gold-embossed black card. The image of Lady Hortensia's bright,my on
irect line into my ph
cted on the ve
is
my spine. Even through the phone, I instantly recognized that dominant voice. It was the man who had pulled
t the cold concrete wall to steady my trembling legs. "I'm t
, followed by a low, unreadable hum. "I know. My
spite my best efforts to stay strong. "My grandmother needs surgery right now, and my accoun
n, his voice crisp, cold, and absol
nds later, my phone buzzed violently with an encr
0,000 gold coins. Sen
ten times the amount I asked for w
re door, ran back to the billing counter, and sla
nt! Prep the operating roo
tal receipt. The color drained from her face, and she grabbed her radio in
the lobby waiting to watch me break,
isting with ugly jealousy. "Where would a wolfless orphan get that
usted hand, aiming a vici
A
e heavy, automated glass doors of the S
wept through the massive lobby. It wasn't just a scent; it
the security guards-instinctively dropped to their knees on the marble tiles. They
the entrance like a d
ng over the kneeling crowd with the disdain of an emperor surveyin
Her knees buckled instantly, sendi
, her voice shaking with absolute dread as
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