You Want a Second Mate, Alpha? Then Accept My Rejection!

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hand pressed to his side, and even in the dark

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aware I suddenly felt of my own hands, my

it was just

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carefully. "You can tell

aren

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to drop a man like you," I said. "So let's

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said. "I don't know you. You don'

me to just a

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