e Davi

Price stepped out, pulling down his ma

racle. Your mother he

r Hardin's arm to band around my waist and haul me against

nized its fated counterpart, and a stra

stepped away, cheeks burning. "Thank you, Mr. Ashl

lightly at his side as if retaining the warmt

ffice. Finish

o the penthouse. On the mahogany desk, the rune-ins

rom the carpet and drew it across my

ing back my healing long enough for blood to w

heat bloomed beneath my left collarbone, as th

id, picking up the parchment and lock

chill. "In two months, I will have my legal te

ing the skin knit back together. "What do

iling window and looked out over the

k Charity Gala at the InterContinental. As

nking family and minor Alpha in the region would be fighti

nger."I don't own an evening gown suitable for an Alpha e

"The only rule you need to know is to stand beside me and keep q

e the tension in my eyes. Now that the blood cont

myself completely into my surgica

eturned to my mother's cheeks day by day, and she was soon t

f our contract was his Beta assistant delivering crates of

ed outside my run-down apartment building. Four stylists in bla

s to prepare you for tonight's gala," th

couture gown they unzipped, drew a quiet breath, and

and a necklace with a massive blood-red diamond was fastened a

lood Diamond worth sixty million dollars, and you make it

d the natural regal poise of my White Wolf bloodline-something I h

skirt, stepped into silver stilettos

h, a lit cigarette between his fingers. His brows were drawn with impa

y heels, he lifte

olding his cigarette froze mid-air. His gray

impatience in his gaze vanished, replaced by a flash of raw,

the gutter and strode straight up t

hree minu

d a large, warm hand around my bare waist and gui