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silver-coated blades to stop the skin

perating table, shivering.

all ticked. One ho

t, a tight, constricting knot. My heart was bea

g on a plush bed. My mother was fastening a necklace around her throat-the Moonstone neck

bare neck. No nec

vation room. He looked through

utton on the in

e button on his side. "

I asked, my voice tremblin

the soul to find the Moon Goddess. To die

orbid. You're just giving an essence organ. You ar

he button and

y spilled do

nurse. It was Simon. He stood at the f

to check on you,"

e?" I w

en this is over... you can move out of the attic. The

a cage with better heating.* He was making p

aid softly.

econd, I saw confusion in his gaze. His wolf was stirring, s

one," he said,

as a Beta, efficient and cold. She did

k," she

. The silver beneath the thi

" Petra said

y face. I took a deep brea

to fade, the surgeon pic

incision," s

lade sliced

the t

, collapsed under the trauma of the silver. The poison, sens

screamed. A single

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elled. "Heart rate is zer

anymore. The burning st

floa

it. I saw the black veins spreading rapidly from the

ver,* I

xpecting a light. But there was no l

But I was