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essed my spine flat against the cold tile wall, d

his bare shoulders and shoved, but it was like

g, zeroing in on the faint, crescent-moon birthmark sitting just below my left collar

d, his lip curling into a mocking sneer. "Is Dillan really that useless

nger's mouth made my stomach twist with

is none of yo

is thumb and forefinger clamping hard aroun

ner of his mouth. "Though I am curious how a woman married for f

er. Every drop of blood drained from my f

nothing more than a despised ornament in the Graves estate--an Omega so

into a shrill shout as I twisted my head, tr

, trapping me compl

red, his voice brutally blunt. "A wolf's body doesn't lie, and nei

hout thinking, I swung my free hand up t

tched my wrist out of midair an inch from

hanking me right now. If I hadn't held back at the last second, my

ale's scent gland to complete the Marking, an unbreakable soul-bond formed; if he had ma

tears welled in my eyes again. "Is it money? Tell

eight of his Alpha dominion slammed into my chest, forcing my

insect. "Do I look like a starving alley

he opened his fingers and tossed my wrist aside as if touching me

slid his arms into it, every movement radiating the co

d toward the nightstand where my clutch purse had fal

ompact and phone back into the bag, my finger

k to him as I stood up. "If you breathe a single word of this to anyone

tood there fastening a pair of platinum cufflinks, watchi

d of worrying about me, you should figure out how you're going to

into my clutch, pulled out a travel bottle of heavy floral perfu

oded into the air. Across the room, the man's jaw tightened

oward the wet bar to pour two fingers o

ock on the nightstand made my heart skip--my flight bac

o put an ocean between myself and this

r my ruined heels. Barefoot and dressed only in his long white shi