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te him. I hate that I crave him. It's maddening-how that night still lingers in my mind, how part o

ues. Nights are endless torture as he fucks his Lun

re. Whispers of me and the Alpha hav

ery day I serve her, every glance she throws my way, reminds

e poison. At first, she punished me with extra work, then publ

Zoe," one of the maids tells me

lled for me?" I bow slightly, bu

that would put the most expensive body wash to shame. S

mly with a g

sweetly-and I know in my

e table. Wine spills across the floor, and she lets out a scream

ike history repeating itself-the night I was found at A

rd the room. I know I need to

attack me!" sh

-something I did once as a child. I only ever tried it that one tim

or and Eve, counting down the s

The world seems to freeze. "You will for

most mechanically, "I will forget..." Her eyes b

nd again. "What were we talking abou

ering in my chest. 'Oh Goddes

above the room. I can feel a pr

stares at me for a moment, and my

my breath as I notice

mer as I glance at Eve's confused face a

asks, looking between u

can carry me. Alpha Aiden is going to kill me. They'll call it

g-twenty years of cruelty, abuse, and re

y breaths sharp and ragged. I'm almost at the

en all my life. My parents warned me never to reveal it. And

nt into the streets, through the crowded ma

ng dark falls over my head. Before I

rror. Fuck my life. Alpha A