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Jessica lay peacefully in bed, her breathing soft and ready lunched her for a moment, memerining the curve of her face and the way her hair spilled over the pillaw
||How wished todd stay. But tonight want jud another right – was the cultivation ritual, and my pack peeded me.
Leaving her now was aporting. My artis med to stay by her debut i knew better. This chual brightened our sensh Ware my wollfiem might frighten ber if I lost control.
sensitivity, and being near my mune would any amplify my cravi
Ithought about testing her giving her some excuse for my absence, I knew he have questions, Quentin (wen’t ready to answer
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Ithar Basrard | urak” 1 growled at my guardi. “Seandeverywhere–leven stor mured. Even the human world it off–limits. Do you hear me? He must not get near Jessica“
The guard swallowed hard and nodded bear palpable Good. He understood the stakes.
Locat had always been a them in my tid, hun now, he was a threat to everything I held dear estira was my world and I’d die before letting anyone harm her
sechoed in my mind through the packs merral link
Thined under my breach reluctantly earing myself away from my thoughts of jessica. The ning room loomed ahead, a stark reminder of the reports that came with being Ap
The siders were already gathered their expressions solemn of them stepped forward histone reverem
“Alpha tonight in the main pul. Our traditano demand that you be with your i
İrolled my aya, barely making my frutation. “And what don’t have side? Do that make many of my title?
The elderched but heldkii ground. Without your main th
permeting. Il fishe band that wases the pain without her. Gerbual-
The elder shahad only. “Alpha, with the full moon only nes day stay, not made arrangement. There is a maiden marele like yourself—”
My patience mapped. “How dare you?” I backed my voce a thandeniu man. “Who pare you the right to interfere in any allairs? Did Dunklar your help?”
Another elder mapped in empting the the “we were lacking our for you. Alpha.”
Before Leuld respond, a familiar, morking roles our through the esom
Do you remate, dear brother?”
My pressapped to Lucas, Rissmirk as infurlining as ever. He hit into an apple, Ni cyn gleaming with mischief]
“They’re worried about you, Labels the mar að
de mam “Alve all, what good ha
(an 1 lunged an him, my hand doing around his thra Localed his mug grin faltering as he pasped for ar
Who invited you her growled, any printing
Lacan’s eyen burred with buy men in the guard dragged him assay.
You regrestis, Lansan” ha thored, his preaching down the hubcap,
ightful arrived, and I made my way to the Mountain. The air was tuck with anticipation as my body begun to shah
The pen was excruciating–bones snapping, mudri ining, fir erupting from myskis. Ikran agamural growt senses sharpening vid every transformation.
Suddenly, footmapuachoed through the dark. My head mapped the and mysliacines on high alert.||
“Who’s there?” I growled, my valce dimmed by my transformation)
Hyde with rok in my ring wolf form
bloodings, and
| scream, and before I could reacher, she pled to the ground, unconscious.
I barely had time to react befrom another dipure stepped out of the shadows.
The grinned wickedly his epen alight withi
Tiga yon las mej surprise, Alpha Lanion,” he tausted]
