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fortlessly, and she wraps her tiny legs around his waist

he asks, his tone calm as he r

ps to his ear, then whispers s

inding trouble with Suzy," Kael says, s

ender makes me feel... unsettled. Maybe it's because a man who

ike a tomato when she's mad!" Xiana exc

t from the moment she stepped into the room

se for being naughty

her chest. "You're just saying that b

lking to, child?" Kael says, h

Alpha Kael. Alpha of the FrostLands." She squ

o gave birth to such a s

ised. He rolls his eyes and pinches he

y, half-blue eyes meet m

shouts, her lips break

mmy

" She taps Kael's che

about?" I say to Ka

htly. "Xiana, heal. Go to the g

"No. I want to

her down. "Don't make me an

t Da

ian

again, her eyes moistening. "You're alwa

ave. I get to my feet, suddenly u

me?" I ask. Each second I'm

I have no memory of carrying a

says, "You aren't going to under

and look up. Shit, why

y you brought me here, and why the hel

ngers into his coat pockets. "A healing pod

en was I

onds before he looks away, walks off to who-knows-where, and takes a white leather co

long can be harmful to us," he i

lacing a firm hand on my wa

n getting your face smashed," he

rent wall materializes. He enters a code

d be an easy target." He sa

ide makes me st

A huge mountain looms in the distance. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of cabins dot the landscape. In the center, a lush green

me sort of climate shield. There's n

ike a guard greets Kael. When

ise, some with happiness, others with... fe

e?" I ask in awe, s

question exactly would yo

who seems too grum

hs. "Yo

Hu

d everything. Brought in different healers, but to no avail. You were alive but in a coma, and all the healers sa

his hands on Kryptonite and hybrid blood. But it

tand an inch of what he just said. But

hat's not humanly possible," I say, won

uman." His lips curl into a sard

ic attack. It's almost like I've heard those words b

he says...except now, it's

's

is he doing here? He's h

am h

aughs. "You're a monster, and

to reality as I hit something behind me. I gasp and turn ar

send a fist toward its face. It whimpers and

slams me against something hard. I don't think, I

el says, as if that's suppos

use, my fist frozen mid-air before it can collide

t the guards, who I now real

and move aw

isbelief as I push mys

ere was a wolf right there! Wh

e sense into him. He opens his mouth to say something when several m

men have been caugh