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reathe again. Something about the feeling of

ed me, my heart wouldn

arms behind him, an

I wasn't human, because I doubted your smarta** would believe me if I had j

hair, like the next thing he's about

estroying you from the inside out. You were dead... but only for a few minutes. I knew I had to do something qu

ring you here and place you in the healing pod

e to deliver Xiana sin

after the apocalypse. Bernice has been a great help to us... and to you. She performed the operation to cut Xiana out of you. It was

"Xiana... she's always been a fi

y throat as I

on. No one wanted to be around the girl who

her. He treated her

rail off, trying to find my words. "So... I have to live he

ys. "This is the safest place you can be. Hum

ticism in his voice tha

trying to find

Diana. All of us. We aren't human-we'r

"He knows you exist? I led

how tense I'm becoming, a

me. That bastard used me to get to y

that we exist. I led him here because I couldn't control my emotions. You're my mate, and i

rs. What we need now is to stop Eric

ault. If I hadn't been so naive as to believe Er

with it. It's all my fau

hurt anyone else. It's the least I can do to r

ring him down?

ous smile. "First, you need to g

abs my hand. My heart starts beating too hard. He leads me t

weaker... and in a beautiful green gown that makes me look like one o

e, soft and full of s

at me like that-not with

murmurs, "but not yet the v

self from

nd runs his thumb over

changes. You were becoming who you truly are. A hybrid-half wolf, half human, and something else... somethi

y... I could hear heartbeats so clearly... and

And until we figure out what that other part

if he tries at

need a plan. We need to be s

e he is. Our noses almost touch. I swallow a g

ing about Eric that's c

and frowns. Somet

ell

nd sits. I wait impatiently f

I don't feel my heart

re. He's built so many organizations, so many security systems. The last time I sent a spy out to mon

prepared. Who knows what t

ly to know he married someone else. It's obvious I was

child who's a

r had to grow up aro

d to s

e for the blood tha

ived-that even if I got no love from my own

l says. I look away and wipe

e betrays me. "I just... nee

feet and nods softly. "You can always se

nk you..

er have to tha

the door and

rs on those a**holes, love. Th

his words echo t

held it in for too long. But the mom

nto myself, arms clutched tight, sobbing for everythi