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io, warming my eyelids. For the first time in seven years, I didn't w

ying the steaming mug back to the coffee table, I opened my laptop to find an encrypted email from Audrey. "T

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display, my pulse quickened with a familiar rush. At the top of the message board sat a commission from Manhattan's most exclusive luxu

lias, Lanyin. If I was stepping back into h

tphone buzzed against the wooden table. A breaking corpora

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stood in a tight crimson dress beside Julian, her hand resting possessively o

nt our anniversary night with her, but he had also handed her the exa

into the neural architecture three years earlier and slipped silently into the new subsidiary's main server. I didn't wipe thei

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s a disaster. Without Seraphina managing the kitchen, the pack chef

y steel fork across the room. Silver was lethal to werewolves and strictly forbid

ced restlessly inside my skull all night, leaving

his chair, though he glared mutinously at his plate. "She's not even

tion in my chest. For seven years, this house had run like clockw

stant, Victor Hayes, who stood by the doorway, "Pull the trans

he obsidian card on the vanity last night. There

o money? Where could a wolfless woman wit

I slammed my palm onto the oak table, rattling the

ning his back to me as he whispered into the mic, "Auntie Chloe, Dad is b

op him. Half an hour later, after the driver took Finn to Black Stone Tower, I sat alo

in my eyes. She was just throwing a jealous tantrum over Chloe; once she star