a P
y," I sai
ctly as calmly as the first time. As
just came out, high and shaky. "
with me. He di
augh
I'm not asking you to take responsibility for anythin
ned back against the front of it with his arms folded. Close enough that his s
ft
Shaw has wanted my seat since before I could walk. On the night of the Blood Moon, the Council will meet to confirm me as Alpha of Si
iving above the clouds, untouchable. It had never occurr
o take a mate for three years," he w
d. "There have to be a hundred s
head. "That makes me a liar and a cheat. My uncle would eat me alive. But if I marry the girl in the p
id it made my
he world who can make that
im at all, honestly. I'd been so busy panicking about my own
ess," I sa
kno
aura." I gestured weakly at the door, at the elevator, at that moment this morning when everyone else
d, "is my prob
em when they start t
ace, gone before I could read it. "
t back to his chair. When he s
k events, a few galas. After one year, you can file for dissolution. The choice
th fel
llion d
had three hundred and twelve dollars in my checking ac
f I sa
y. "Your job is safe. I'm not going to r
had every chance to throw me out of this building toda
to think
it but his name and a phone number, embossed in silver. "That's my priv
is. A spark jumped between us,
inch. He jus
ht, Miss
lished smile. I rode it down forty-two floors holdin
my life had be
e entirely, and I didn't
lked the fourteen blocks with the card in my poc
en I was two block
wn nu
no text. J
my heels dangling from my fingers, looking back ov
me in while I was s
e if the whole pack saw this before the
ed with a s
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