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the chill from that man's dark e

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wer, my phone vibr

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baring her teeth, but I picked it u

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almost amused, and in the background I could hear Shelby's soft, h

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econd. My thumb hover

m is, Ivy? You're boring.

dull, familiar ache pr

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others uncomfortable. I had worn the colors his mother picked and smiled

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t. Enjoy being the Alpha who

ould actually have a pup with that plumber, Flower. Swear

cking up my glass. "He thinks I h

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the sofa beside me, smelling of sweet human colog

my skin prickli

crowded me against his door smelling of sweat an

d Luna, standing up. "Go

of the corridor outside. I

as g

es, and my feet were on the gas pedal before my brain could talk

en, a sleek black Bentley was idling at the

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nd slammed

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her c

before I could stop them. I w

cold and humorless. "You didn't te

on me and walked

y chest. Who the hell

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," he sai

ght up, he had already pushed off the

f against the counter edge, and leaned back against

en get into his bed. So you blew up your own nam

flat. Every word

o my face, hot

was seventeen. You don'

stopped halfwa

the counter and raised his left hand, his thumb brushing on

e way he looked at me like he co

shaking with rage. "Big talk from a rogue

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and the suffocati

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ulder at me, his eyes

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ore I slammed it shut behind me,

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like a lunatic. What the hell was wrong with me? Driving all the way

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