die
ld, cramped room, prying up the loose plank beneath the narrow cot. My fingers brushed the cold metal of a faded tin box. Inside
The Pack disg
ter stood there, flanked by two burly she-wolf maids. Her eyes locked onto the tin box. "Take
lunged, her han
msy grab, caught her wrist, and twisted it into a brutal, bone-straining joint lo
asped, ste
out my phone with my free hand and brought up th
ed the screen toward Clotilde. "Any infringement on my personal property is a direct provoca
my unyielding grip on her maid. She couldn't comprehend
s," Clotilde spat, her voice trembling with ve
threat, and walked past them with
the exit, the sound of Luna Victoria's vo
ed into her phone, speaking to another Pack's Luna. "She might even be a
I pulled out my phone, hit the record button, and captured fifteen seconds of her venomous slande
e, the foyer was thick with the oppressive
eneath his skin, furious and frustrated after three weeks of failing to find his mysterious sav
ripping with ice. "Did you go back just
the box. I instinctively
d clamped down hard
ap
as so intense, so overwhelmingly intimate, that my carefully constructed mask shattered. I snapped my head up, glaring at him. T
. The air between us crackled, heavy and breathless. I could almost h
y shoulders and forcing the void back into my eyes. I suffocated my
clenching as his rational mind violently rejected what his Lycan instincts had just screamed at him
e growled, rubbing his t
ried to my suite, locki
ns. I sat at my desk in the dim light and opened my encrypted laptop. The screen bathed my fac
nd targeted Schmidt Industries, specifically the subsidiary managing Clotilde's precious
ock graph plummet, a beautiful, vertical red
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