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rds had giv

cepted-even if I had to watch her live in

d endu

ha had whispered to me five years ago, h

out a wolf, without even the pack's respect. But now? Now I

was e

ad t

led from the pot as I poured Evelyn's medi

pen her be

fr

hands-those cruel, beautiful hands-stroki

t I'd never see you

tears away. "Your lov

rly slipped

locked onto mine, all tenderness vani

Evelyn the medicine. Every c

u, Liv." Her fingers were ice. "After

gainst my husband's chest as if she belonged there, while I remained on the sidel

right to

ripping apart his happiness with Eve

't expected it t

"Drink. Then sleep." His

er lashes. "Can I talk to Ol

ed through me. "She'

n't have hurt an

ing his sleeve. "Pl

at.

uctant. "Ten minutes." He ruffled her ha

r click

ess melted like

isper was a serpent's tongu

stuttered

ls dug into my arm. "Just like

ver w

cheek. "Because of you, I

ot what h

"This all should have ended five years ag

ely

ointed at the do

he hallway, my he

tter what th

always be the thief

Evelyn was planning, but it felt like my life woul

ded inward. Two warriors hauled

y dragged me down the hall-past gawking

e judgm

lders flanked him. And there-Evelyn, her ey

mach d

inic commande

locked onto her. Tears glistened in her e

"I was taken. Forced into hiding. Barely surviving. But I reme

her face a masterpiec

ivi

asp ripped thr

h vanish

eve the audacity of her

e. "Hated how close Dominic and I were. Hired those rogues to eliminate m

iolently. This

re from me. "Evel

AC

heek before I could finish. Pa

lazing. "I knew you were unworthy of

c, searching his face f

th

cial ind

" I choked out, my voice raw with d

ough the air like a blade-fin

ld sha

o one cared about the truth. Just like five years ago

vidence, my life had

es had cemented my guilt. What fr

rcy. But the warriors didn't hesitate, the

ght Evelyn's face-her pitiful mask sl

am. To fight. To

t was t

believed me. A few pretty words from Evel

e pack grounds, the whispers

rde

to be Luna. That p

ust spat at her. Tod

H

d trickled into my eye, but I b

ness thick and suffocating. My knees hit the ston

h

winge in

flew to my stoma

but our child was innoc

acked, but didn't waver. This was my las