enne

windpipe cut off

cheek jumping. There was none of last night's fever in his cobalt-blue eyes-on

d off. That would only make

at him, and let the tears come, sliding down my

ned an inch, and a thread of

oked, my voice hoarse and br

ng to deny it. But he scanned the roo

with the faint pine scent on my skin. The white silk dress lay in pieces on

my bruised throat and shrinking into the blanket.

like a slap ac

yes, like guilt, and like disgust. He let g

e marks on my neck, then at

ad kept for five years had been trampled clean by himself in one

rough his messy black hair, and paced

up to my chin and c

" I said quietly, a sob in my voice, "I will

rned to look at me,

andmother

d, my voice shaking, not mentioning who had actually given the order. "I did

to the white dress, so she cou

was a body full of marks and a face full of tears, a defective with no wolf-in his eyes, n

e killing intent in his tone f

om the chair and threw it ov

pulled on a clean shirt and trousers. "Don't think o

only afraid... what if the Moon Goddess lets me carr

stopped on

poison in his blood made it impossible for him to have a child. No one dared ment

s quiet for

head. "Stay in the guest room next door. Until it is con

e stayed soft: "And if

ack to wherev

ive orders to the guards outside. Two knocks came, and t

ched the handle, he paused and looked back at

ice, "never wear white again. You a

d shut behind him,

om wen

sness and tears dried from my face.

d I care about that sentence. I had moved into th

he drawer I took the small scissors, cut out the bloodstained cloth from

y key to seeing

, and changed into a clean, high-collared dark charco

or of the Alpha's estate and stepped into the

burst of shrill l

he covered walkway with her

me, an

instant. She caught the sce

face we