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hiskey-soaked blur. I woke up to blinding New York sun
t black Egyptian cotton. I looked down and realized I was drowning in a crisp, white men's button-down shirt that smell
eized m
lying in a crumpled heap near a leather armchair. Its side seam was violently rip
ss. What
en-suite bathroom slid open. A
oplets still clinging to the carved muscles of his chest, tracing paths down rid
ing, heavy blend of sharp cedarwood, a raging rainstorm, and rich Cuban tobacco-it slammed into me l
ng. And my body re
stammered, my voice trembling as I instinctively backed away. "Last night. The alcohol
't say
e. I couldn't hear the inner wolf tearing at his mind-I was wolfless, deaf to that part of
low, lethal grace. Every step deliberate
hit the freezing edge of the massive bla
ap
radiated against my skin, and I had to tilt my head back ju
world s
ck, right on the collarbone-a deep, red, unm
ite
scent. The sheer panic. My teeth sinking into his burning skin in
vibrated straight through my chest. It wasn't loud. It didn'
screaming in absolute terror. "I can go to a pharmac
thless scof
down at me as if my human solution to a deeply primal werewolf
of the island, and poured himself a cup of black coffee. Every movement was c
y heart hammering
ter and tossed it across the marble. It slid,
Street
KING ACQUISITION. Below the bold text was a high-definition photo of the m
n Bla
man world, he was Wall Street's most cold-blooded predator-a billionaire
ckw
was a Lycan. The apex predator of the werewolf hierarchy. A myth of unimagin
e a child's game. I, a defective, wolfless outcast,
hilling, calculated emptiness. He set the mug down, reached into the pock
trembling, terrified being-that my
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