scared out

were bared as blood

overed in her blo

sts heaved. She

to his body, like a pin ja

expected, but she had drawn blood, even thou

in his chest, eyes burn

tle –" h

e side, striking her face,

on her, and Castian

ke a blade cutting through the night as h

es twitching with frustrat

cked

his dark gaze sweeping over

s cloak was in his hands again, and

ulling it around her front, "for someone raised in a palace," he fin

hed. She glared at him

g the fight, and her hand

aling the wound. Her head was pounding, but she refused to

a minute, as she breathed rag

slightly, but there wa

face, and for half a seco

standing so close to her, her damp eyes overfl

iness that comes with survival, all hit her

inded her of wher

s' face again

e is

is my

is happen

ed, just now, I

ph

reaching out to her f

something, or someone was blocking h

e case as she stared at the wolf

ng in front of her, blocking her fr

ing them all, his gray eyes l

ogues as they stared back or gazed at on

ered, the she-wolf w

stood again

nt state, registered this f

rogues had truly wanted to kill her, they could have

s wide shoulders, the way they watched her, their eyes filled w

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w them, but she also knew that

th her knowledge of pack wars, battle

lse, she was a hostage that coul

to her home, not on her own. She had never le

part of his entourage, they were taken there by guard

gue. That meant, in Malbarone, by one of her father's oldest orders, m

w could chan

only one

g her back could this o

id not have her father's express command,

shifter world, but they had nev

er questioned such a law,

ue, and rogues DI

hour ago, when that very law

she thought of her father, her Darius, and her pack

pposed to be the be

er and the other rogues, jerked his head back to

ly darting up as she stared back at him, her fac

dam burst as she wept

tention triggered a we

to press on her heart whenever they locked eyes

and her heart yearned to have him back, yet that same heart wa

nd and her heart we

e, and the other for the stone-faced alpha be

d forward, s