aide

tered the adjoining dressing room, her soft footsteps barely making a sound on the thic

k with pain and fury. "Wh

ned panic and conspiracy. "Hush! They'

s small, brutish eyes filled with confusion and rage. Cora, pressing a g

ling convincingly. "They said the plan has changed. They fou

voice was a low gro

Lady Juliana is furious with Lady Ashley for the poor planning. She

down the water. The

e. "Calling you a mindless beast she wouldn't let touch the hem of her go

for. The drug was kicking in, fanning the flames of his bruise

she?" he

abin," Cora replie

open and close, and the heavy, angry footsteps

ilia was preening in front of her mirror. She adjusted a

ecret love, Julian Montgomery, the handsome son of a neighboring Alpha. The note spoke of his secr

my past life to forge documents for my father. Cora, my terrified

e herself could be the target of one. She mistook her accelerating

houlders, her mind filled with dreams of a passionate

report her success. Her fa

," she whispered, un

sal. She scurried away, leaving

ia pushed open the creaky door of the dilapidated hu

of dust and decay. A large silho

ed out, her voice

gure t

It was the contorted, sweat-slicked face of Vance Tuc

was cut short as

abbing a fistful of her golden hair

or slammed shut, sw

nipulated, and by the lie that Cecilia was the one

tartled birds burst from the trees near the cabin, t

ndow, a slow, cold smile

move was