ra
d even process the reality of the frozen account, the heavy landline on the d
the receive
t facility. "The auto-pay for Hazle Mercer's ventilator care failed this morning. If the fifty thousand dollar balance
erfunded nightmare where patie
ling so violently the phone rattled against
buzzed. A text from Sylvia Vance: *Blackwood Towe
alculated. He had cut my mother's li
d, claiming she couldn't find my appointment in the system. For forty-five agonizing minutes, I
ed past, their hushed whispers loud
s the wolfl
lpha keeps that Rejec
like a starv
my dignity, drowning me in the suffocating
aiting in her glass-walled office. The red handprint I'd left on
nt across her mahogany desk. It r
"Confess to your emotional instability due to your wolfless nature. A
enever he deemed me inconvenient. But the clock was ticking toward five. I pricked my fi
dropping to a venomous whisper. "Listen to me, *Omega*. If you ever touch me again,
office. Passing the employee breakroom on my way
bags on a sunlit street in SoHo. Karly Rowe clung to his arm, and little Ava skipped happily beside th
k member muttered to her friend as they walk
private, agonizing hell-pierced my chest simultaneously. I
king garage. I had no Inner Wolf to howl my agony. I could only scream silently,
g, emotionless presence vi
*Alpha's
h my skull. His voice echoed in my head like metal scraping
he played the perfect father on TV-was the ultimate insult. But instea
the rearview mirror. The despair evaporated, leaving beh
he empty car, wiping the blood fr
ne and drove back
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