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about silks and jewels. They dressed me in a gown the color of midnight, my hair swept u

ple, the fated Alpha and his gifted Healer mate. Wolves came to us, offering congratulat

o hear. He clasped a diamond watch around my wrist. The band was woven with strands o

ng compared to the

n was giving a speech about loyalty

He clung to me for a second before recoiling, h

ting a small finger at me. "Yo

turned to me, no longer with admiration, but with confusion and suspicion. In t

You mustn't say such things." She tried to pull him away, but th

a small leather bracelet. Dangling from it w

talisman, traditionally saved for the Alpha's firstborn child

ide me. All the pain, the betrayal, the heartbreak

or the tooth, needing to see it, to

" Damien's vo

eacted, protecting his son. He shoved me, hard. The f

niverse of stars exploded behind my eyes. An even sharper, more

flickering life force of the pup inside me, the fragile lu

checking a small scrape on Leo's knee, murmuring

ur child was draining out of me, and my mate had turned his back. The whisper