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y neck. If the water washed away my disguise, the beast waiting in the

a dangerous, predatory gold. I hunched my shoulders, shrinking into the oversized laborer's tunic, making mysel

f recoiled in pure disgust at the sight and smell of me. He snatch

f my sight," he snarled, his voi

ulling the heavy oak doors shut behind me. I leaned against the cool wa

ke a rat scurryi

ghtgown that left nothing to the imagination. The suffocating cloud of

night, Wolfless," she whispered, her eyes alight with arrogant malice. "Listen to ho

e hot spring. I rubbed my jaw, a cold sneer touching my lip

rrifying wave of Alpha Aura bled through the thick woo

shing terror. The scalding steam had washed away her cheap perfume, exposing

or, listening to her agonizing, forced moans of fake pleasure as he used his crushing aura to br

doors opened, and a bruised, hollow-eyed Jessenia stumbled

cked like a whip from th

reeking of dark rum, cedar, and pure Alpha rage. Jaren stood by the win

it," he

he bottom button. The damp corridor air and my own sweat had eaten awa

aled s

ed in his chest-a possessive *Mine!* Before I could pull back, his massive hand c

oice a lethal, silken threat. His gaze sliced t

d, the pain in my wrist bringing tears

collarbone where his teeth had pierced me twenty-four hours ago, inhaling th

that