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alf-naked stranger, my hands still stained with his fever-sweat.

, his eyes darting from me to the man on

hoed off the stone walls. "How could you? With a... a rogue! In

now held nothing but disgust. I could see the thought plain on his face: He's glad he rejected me at the cere

ally simple and brutally effective. It wasn't enough to have me

hout thinking, I shifted my body, moving to stand between the stone slab and t

se amber eyes before they slid shut. In the instant Julian and Karmen had burst in, he had composed himself, his face going s

of the chase-it was all burned away by a cold, clear rage. "What I do

hority being questioned. "As a member of this pack, your conduct reflects on all

he two warriors behind

ing the path to the bed, a mother wolf defending her den. My vo

gotten. Julian stared, incredulous. An Omega, a wolfless Omega,

This was even better than she had planned. The mor

s heavy with menace. The air grew thick, heavy with the oppressive weight of his pheromones.

weak. Every instinct screamed

ce inches from mine, "I will n

nger. Maybe it was the doctor in me refusing to abandon a patient. Maybe it

on radiating from him. The air seemed to hum with a sudden, oppressive energy-the kind that usually accompanie

felt as though he were weighing me, watching to see how far a "wolfless" Omega would go

lare, finally moved. They started to circle aroun

bbing a loose stone from the floor. I was

wrapping around my wrist like a manacle of steel. The force of his grip se

away in disgust.

the edge of the stone slab. I fell agains

ing, their fingers just an inch

as quiet, almost lazy, yet it resonated with an a

a rather popular spot. Tell me, Sinclair, when did yo

snapped tow

p. He leaned back against the stone wall, one leg casually c

e, on the small, trembling, but unbroken line of my back. Ther

ony, who I had sedated and tended to, was now radiating an au

onfused to utterly, bone-chillingly white. The rec

whisper, laced with a terror

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