andr

ge of Cheyenne's mantle, her voice pitching up into a shrill regi

turned into hot anger. He lunged forward, reaching out with

fingers brushed empty air above my collar, h

tight as he spun around. "Alexandra,

the stones. "Is that the grand legacy of the Mckinney pack? First you hide be

. In high werewolf society, an Alpha who struggled to manage an unshifted female was a

rejection right now, or I swear to the Moon Goddes

hest in a quiet,

l they had kicked around for eighteen years-a girl

rn servants spat into my meals, as noble court brutes shoved me into freezing mud, and as Cheyenne treated my devotion like dirt beneath his boots. Worse still, I had wat

l to

nstant that carriage wheel jammed and my bodice was torn? Was it sheer survival instinct, or had someone orchest

ly gone. I wasn't replaced; I was restore

led into my marrow. Every nerve cluster, every brittle joint, and every lethal leverage point of flesh and bone-human or wolf-was second n

armed, and nothing disgusted me more than a cowar

a. "This is your mighty Alpha? A man whose greatest w

back, "He protects me! You wouldn't kno

the intricate tailoring of her bodice. "You think

anoth

skirts caught against a protruding cobb

wild with fury. "Get out of my sight before I

't ans

whalebone stays, stiff seams pulled taut over her waist, held together by double-stitched silk cord at the

f my right hand. The k

eeks completely, and she shrank back against Cheyenne's

missively, treating me like

e," I sai

t word left my

lls of my feet with explosive agility. I slipped right under Cheyenne's reac

a startled grunt, but

teeth. My hands caught the embroidered collar of her gown on both sides,

nails raking against my sk

ches from hers. "You said you wan

to

ps, and ripped outward with every oun