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tmosphere in the restaurant had shi

s to hear. She was wearing my earrings. "That's why she doesn't understand our connec

rstand the pull of loyalty, Ari

Blake warned,

the grou

kitchen-a gas explosion

. Wolves were shifting,

r-iron and silver, beautiful and deadly

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!" I s

he massive fixture was fall

f life or death, a wolf doesn't think. They react.

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across t

kled A

vering her body with his own, rolling them

Alpha speed. I didn't have

elier cra

exploded

elt my right leg shatter. The jagged metal spikes, coated i

s human and raw. The silver burned lik

ebris fill

urt?" I heard Blak

craped my elbow,"

for air. The silver was poisonin

board. He helped Ariana up. He checke

pile of twisted metal w

g out, blood pooling o

ward me, his eyes

, clutching his arm. "The dust!

ed and bleeding out. He looked at Arian

fused security team rushing in. "Get C

to his arms. "I'm getti

his back t

tched him run out the exit, holding another w

pocket, but the calculation

He became her shield.

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