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stammered, her yellow eyes wide wit

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my back. Every instinct inside me ignited at once. I spun just as another wolf launched from the top of a storag

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moment, Lucy drove her elbow into the jaw of the wolf restraining her. He stumbled backward, and she followed with brutal efficiency, tackling him to t

her chest where I'd torn into her earlier. "Please don't kill me.

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skirt. Around us, the warehouse had become a graveyard of broken steel, shattered biotech c

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clothes, and blood dripped steadily between her fingers onto the concre

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contracted violently. Fur receded beneath my skin. My claws withdrew slowly b

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breed and are most protected in the pack", L

Then something else surfaced in my mind. I hadn

d," I continued. "My parents always

red bottle. The second she handed it to me, my stomach dropped. I recognized it immediate

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