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of my lungs. Before I could scramble away, the

g my head back. "Did you really think you could run

eas

ut

age. One of them kicked the doo

ooden chair in the

her

No, p

me across the face. Sta

id sh

nd the chair back. More rope around my ankles, binding them to the chair legs. I thrash

k, admiring their work. "Alpha said to bring he

lau

and I knew who it was

ked in, that cruel smile on

a blank expression. I didn't want to

u really think you could run? Leaving a literal blood t

e go,

till don't understand, do you? You're mine. Yo

me, leaning down so her

He's going to give you to the Lycan King just like we planned.

'll be away

out before I

only felt it when the slap cracked across my face, sna

slapped me again, harder.

d from my mouth. "Besides torture

. This one s

handed slaps that left my face burning. "You took everything from me! Mother loved

s not

. "And now you have a wolf, don't you? I can smell it on you. You

know? How co

now what you're

ith the back of her hand. I felt

smell the change! You finally shifted and you thought y

e felt like it was on fire. But I refused to

hissed in my ear. "I'm going to enjoy knowing you're suffer

er hand to h

oed through

her hand s

r this time. The windows ra

-" One of the

explode

its hinges as a massive b

ey shifted and ran, crashing throug

kward, her face p

s eyes locked o

go, his attenti

hammering. He was huge. Bigger than any wolf I had ever seen, including my father

y, taking very slow

ease." I didn't know when the

re I was doing a very lousy job. I froze and even stop

a werewolf just like

o. I'm the Alp

e, his head tilting a

going to say next got stuck in my th

lined abs, every muscle and every

despite everything. That was the biggest I ha

ced my plight bec

olf? No wolf minds being naked.

top them from going down t

pes binding my wrists. One

" I asked as he move

He finished with the ropes and

he running, the beating, and the fear, I bar

before I hi

surprisingly gentle. "Yo

who ar

at me, those gr

me is