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rprising both of us. "Don't touch me," I said, my voice low

n his eyes was quickly consumed by a familiar, possessive anger. He didn'

anywhere until I s

voice gaining strength. "It's calle

using a procedural loophole, a technicality, to hold me here. It was the desperat

off, the air in the small

eanor! Downs

ty of the former Luna. It was a command, not a request. An order t

e turning and striding out of the room. I followed a few

om, seated ramrod straight on one of the silk

then Donavan, and she delivere

you will move your things ba

Both Donavan and I stared a

immediately

is Pack. Until the elders officially dissolve the bond-if they even choose to do so-you will upho

e more whisper about you and that Stone girl, you will find your ac

e with his mother when she used that tone. He remained silen

lski to have my packed things moved not o

presented my prison. I felt like a captured animal being returned to its cage. I didn't fight it. To defy Gene

of the master suite, wrapped in the most conservative silk pa

e nothing but a low-slung towel around his waist, droplets of water glistening

s blue eyes narrowed with

t crawl into the far side of the king

formance?" he asked, his v

d, my ba

he continued, his voice a low, contemptuous drawl. "Getting my mother to force us into the

wisted, that for a moment, I couldn't breat

" I choked out, spinni

ess. I turned, intending to leave, to

and pushing me back against the wall. The cool plaster was a shock against my ba

e. The scent of him-pine and clean soap and pure, un

e was inches from mine, his eyes burning with a furiou

him in waves, was suffocating. I turned my head away,

to snap the last th

to the armchair where he'd thrown his clothes

rew it in

soundless thud. It wasn't painful. It was infin

room," he spat, his voice laced with veno

assive bed, throwing himself onto it and claiming

cheek stung, not from the impact, but fro

, unmoving back, a sol

m was gone. My dig