ane
al blow. It was a dimly lit, smoke-filled underground market of primal instincts. The space reeked of cheap whiskey, s
e as a final, desperate compromise to pull Finn out of his spiral, hoping to salvage whatever was lef
me the dark side of his world. He was
with my defective, *wolfless* senses, I could smell her. She radiated a thick, cloying scent of wild b
over the heavy bass of the music. I bum
d to the stage. His chest heaved as he inhaled the stripper's scent, his Inner
npredictable predators, completely blind to their Mind-Links and defenseless without a wolf, and my only prote
uzzed against th
screen. It was a text
njoy the di
floor. Behind a pane of dark, tinted glass, a massive silhouette sat in the shadows. I couldn't see his face, but the sheer, c
g in my throat, the wild berry and mus
directly over to us. She didn't even look at me. She leane
p dance, handsome," she purred, her
hat I was sitting right next to him. Instead, a reckless, desperate grin sprea
a gift," Finn slurred, completely obliviou
, my voice cracki
h, grinding her hips against him. Finn's hands immediately went to her waist, his eyes clos
y Knox Crawford. He was forcing me to watch the man I had loved for ten years engage in
d myself out of the booth. "I need to use the restro
wandering hands and predatory stares, until I
r smelled sharply of bleach and mildew. I gripped the edges of the cold porcelain sink, my knuckles t
hu
om door slammed
ick
e deadbolt sliding into plac
leach and mildew was instantly obliterated by a suffocating, i
re crossed over his broad chest, and his dark, merciless eyes pi
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