straight back to the mansion L

n Pack, bought with the savings I had scraped to

rt on funds after taking over pack

, I must hav

r and headed straight to th

ched the doorknob, a s

ble mix of an Alpha

intensity of it hit me hard en

the doo

rly snapped the last

wn lay shredded on the floor, and Luc

aked bodies were

of the door,

m under the blanket, her hai

taunting smile. "Wow, Elena, you're ba

es landed on me, he instinctively tugged the b

d scraped out from

a heat spike on the way back, so I brought her here to rest.

chest, drawing circles over

l the post-mark reaction gets. Lucas wa

anket slide down, revealing sh

ng. I turned and walk

ing? Get me some water, I'm dying of thirst. A

arrying a basin of ice water I'd frozen earlier for a c

stepped up to the bed

ater, cubes and all, cras

hh

ing upright like she

and the two of them scrambled off the bed comp

cas wiped the freezing wate

d pointed at me, shouting, "You crazy bitch! Are you trying t

n onto the floor

If you are

y stare, but his Alpha pride qui

d Sarah and glared at me, hi

een fragile. If she gets sick from

er swallow glass than apologize to her.

Lucas, did you hear her... She said she'd r

arms protectively, then

We're broken up, but I still have the right to live here. Sarah

on the camera. "Then let the entire pack see how their s

olor. He lunged toward me

t you

minutes. If you're still here after

s chest rising and fal

. She tugged at Lucas's arm. "Lucas

ace. "Fine, Elena. You win. Just wait. Within three da

d to get dressed, fumbling around a

but for the first time, the house fi

s how bottomless human

of leaving, they delivere