Alpha Draco And His Omega Luna

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had done something that attracted the attention of a demon lord, he did not say what, and I did not ask, not yet and

Draco said. "He didn't have,

you w

. But I could take them. Absorb them, pull them

emons," I said.

s my b

bsorb a demon lord's punishment to save his twin. The same tw

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ts no pride, no performance. "There was a dragon that had been burning villages along t

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hen it

lled it." He looked at me steadily.

changed anyth

honestly. "No," he

ieving him, which was not a habit I had and w

mpire,"

nderneath it did a tightening, brief and con

me his

it for him. And after that he was both things, Alpha and vampire, and the two natures don't sit

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and survived that too and kept being.." he gestured, slightly, at himself, " this. A

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struggle

han the others. "Yes,"

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gaze. "I am a great many things, Sofia. None of the

had been twelve years old and chosen to absorb his brother's punishment without being asked, who sat very still and told me terrible t

other,"

t very

That your father took her."

at told me he had been carrying them for a very long time. "I was to

d in my chest.

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went? When you le

back at me

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the dragon, the vampire, the mother, the brother. The particular arc

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raco's expression. Sub

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co said. "He's been behind mos

does h

n this world under his control. He had it once or close to it. He lost it when I took

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other m

The morning after the pack found out about our

yes met m

ll come

were simple and absol

a long moment. "You

ng I am will stand between you and him. All of

ry was ve

he floor in long, clean rectangles. I looked at the light for a moment, and then I looked at Draco

e thing that would make everything he ha

ing I haven't t

wai

. I have been, in moments, without understanding it." I paused. "Witches are despised here.

steadily. His expre

ling me now

I said. "It seemed, it see

oment of

a witch," he said.

e had witch

aid quietly, "that's

ked a

's exactly what I meant w

mething, the sound carrying through the glass high and clear and enti

ors up, reorganising furniture and drin

had gone out without wind, on

blood that I had spent my enti

perly. I've suppressed it for so long that I d

help with that," Draco said. "If she'

as he spoke about her unlike when

ive," I said. "You

stroy something powerful when he can keep it and use it instead." H

nt. The horror of it, the

her,"

nten

r here." I met his eye

g to know, the one that was not quite controlled, that had something

it takes

utomatically, that reflex that sti

the door t

back. "Thank you

hen he mumbled,"Thank you for a

, and I went to find my grandmother, and I sat with her for an hour while sh