Sold After Rejection to the Ruthless Lycan King

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you choose?

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and into Darius's,

ra Stormborn

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o Darius, but her ey

right choice,"

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life split into a b

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and hawk-eyed, gold rings flashing in the torchlight.

us," he s

uffocating after the cold outside,

pack," Elder Rowan said ca

ed me. "Sorry, my pa

pped. "You should be gratefu

d curled in

"Silverclaw owes

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to frighten di

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ves at dawn," Rowan

it

in the distance

make the very stone

owed instantly. Fear cra

Kael

me aloud. The king whose shad

ong. Because beneath the pain... beneath the hum

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not being se

I being sent

d king alive. And something deep in my bones

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