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roud. The silent, suffocating ride in the back of Damien's Maybach had passed in a blur,
hed metal handles had been touched by thousands of hopeful couples, but to me, they looked like the gates of a prison. The brutal reality
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noticed e
. The grip was inescapable, a vice of pure, unyielding strength. He yanked m
ugh my veins. "It's a blood pact with my Pack. If you run, the fifty million is the least of your worries. Y
orse than being a Rogue. Rogues were killed; debtors were broken, hunted for sport, and enslaved. Th
legs to move, letting him guide me through the
e the room feel like a shrinking box. Behind a heavy desk sat a bored-lookin
clerk droned, reading
emembered Deann Hensley's sneering face, the way my adoptive mother used to remind me that I was just a nameless wolfless, a stray they had never
lackwood to be your lawfully wedded h
parted, but no sound came
ifying, undeniable surge of energy rushed from his skin into mine. It was the *Alpha's Command*. As a wolfless, I had z
rembling violently as the words we
w York, I pronounce you husband and wife," th
complete. I exhaled a shaky breath, e
es flew open. Deep within his charcoal gaze, a terrifyi
ssessiveness that made my knees buckle. The intoxicating, heavy scent of sharp cedarwood, a raging rainstorm, and rich Cuban tobacco flooded my senses,
a trapped bird. He brushed his thumb over my swollen lower lip, his chest
, the words barely audible but heavy
t married a billionaire CEO. I had locked myself in a cage
ge certificate, his hand returning to the small of my back to
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