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He was mocking me. He didn't believe I could do it. He tho

stubborn defiance

let mys

ab the stiff collar of his black shirt. I pulled his towerin

pressed my mouth directly against the j

ss for three agonizing seconds, a single tear slipping from my eyelashes and landing on his r

athed, my voice brea

roze com

y a wild, chaotic intensity that made the air in the room vibrate. He stared at me, his ch

rd, a sharp knock echoed

ly. "The council requires your immediat

eep and possessive it made my heart skip a beat-before turning on

Romer

to my private study, slamming the

gh our mind-link. The council is waiting fo

perimeter, I snarled back, my chest still heaving, my breathing unchara

ling hand, my fingers touching the exact spot

could barely breathe, yet she had thrown herself i

I whispered, a dark, dangerou

the fireplace, staring at the repulsive,

beneath the hidden edges near my hairline, and

tic fell to

stocratic cheekbones, a sharp, arrogant jawline carved fro

olled the financial throat of every pack in North America. No silver in

d mask on the floor, my eyes

onster. Now, she would

d-link, projecting

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, A

eflection. "Escort the Luna back to the Cooley estate to collect her belonging

stood,