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regret at the moment?
How could she? The memories were everywhere, clinging to the corners of her vision like a lewdity, greasy and unwanted. She ran a hand over the back
e had wasted the entirety of her twenties on
ccounts; she was the one with the command in her blood. Her father, President Alexander Vance, ruled the entire nati
had served him, his ungrateful mother, and his leeching siblings at their table every single day. She, a dominant Alpha of the most powerful lineage in the country, had masked her pher
ers onto the stained kitchen table played on a loop in her h
e had asked, her voice stead
ds that had scrubbed floors and sold drinks in neon-lit clubs just to pay for Greene's tuition. She had built him. She had carved a man out of
?" Her heart had trembled
tie, the one she'd bought him. "She's an Alpha. I knew her from college and sh
yed, or he was a fool, or perhaps some social climber had successfully draped themselves in her stolen shadow.
across the table like he was feeding a stray dog. "That's w
kety house." She broke into a jagged laugh that didn't reach her eyes. "My father was right about one thing: everyone is supposed to be trea
tably as the air in the small room suddenly felt
them. I should've known when to walk away instead of sucking it all up like a fool." She sprang to her feet, her posture shifting. Gone was the slu
therapist stammered, r
ance, the most powerful man in all of America. I'm his heire
ll above the door chiming a funeral dirge for her old life. Outside
a coin, a distress beacon she hadn't touched since the night she climbed out offlecked eyes. She looked at her phone one last time. A text from Greene's mother sat on the screen: Don't forget
ed the thread and tossed the
ooking up as three sleek, black V-22 Ospreys tore through the clouds, their flight path direct and unapologet
t forced the onlookers to shield their eyes. Soldiers in tactical gear, bearing
bered as a young lieutenant, hit the
gines. "The President has been tracking your sign
a..." He called with a distant famili
uit, his physique was quite striking. His blue eyes were drowning... She didn't have the time to admire him as she walked past and set onto th
d as soon as they sat in the
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