didn't

thing more alive than air. The shadows on the walls moved when she wasn't lo

she though

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scent

en D

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rstand it. She

pened with

flin

ng all black again, a button undone just low enough to show the intricate

said, setting a tra

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don't want to eat

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faded. "

nd electric pass

you're going to kill me,

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ow what tha

d, lifting his hand. "I can s

r voice a little less steady. "

ger. As if something inside him recognized so

e," he murmured. "Bu

ached

ped his

nger. With interest. As if

in you," he said. "Somet

the prop

s-" he stepped even closer, crowding her space, "-this is worse. You're not written i

ike your

ng her against the wall. "

y n

brushing her jaw, "every instinct I have starts scr

n fr

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ind his golden eyes. Rage. Hunger. Lu

insane,"

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ting

dn't

ed the door and

our prison

risoner," he said.

even a little. But stayi

essed in black and red, each one giving her a look lik

ened anot

k stone walls. A long table sat in the center, surrounde

s inner

sat the woman from before

ed, eyeing her like a sc

Drax pack. Bloodline enforcer. And yo

," Raven

head of the table a

o the council?" on

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uth?" Ra

yes. "The one yo

across the table. Inside were images-medi

f a rogue bloodline. Not quite wolf. Not quite human. Somet

his a

hing neither side understands. And now, ev

t to be part

It's a kingdom. And you're the k

u think I care about your crown? I

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m went

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en said. "The bond

ding. "No. No, that's not how

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aid. "The Nightfangs.

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abbed her wrist, and p

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o touches

o Raven, ey

w. You're under my prote

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w the Alph

underworld was