ana
stone floor, a cold reminder of how cl
oming in ragged gasps. "El... she's going to
ce freezing my veins. Jessenia was a coward, terrified of the Alpha's wra
time before his predatory instincts pieced the puzzle together. I couldn't stay in the servant quarters, and I certainly coul
n the entire Griffin Pack
ubbing my neck until the skin was raw and burning. I had
, the Dowager Luna's Head of Staff, was standing near the fountain. The faint, steady scent of chamomile drif
eeping my eyes glued to the cobblestones. I slumped my shoulders,
and deferential. "I am a fast worker, and I kn
ching for any deceitful Omega or Alpha traits. All she found was the pungent, e
practical. "Three days trial in the Dowag
my knees nearly buckled. I had m
rlor. The room was suffocatingly grand. The air was thick with the scent of aged agarwood-Josephine Griffin's
s down when the heavy mah
voured the agarwood. My heart stopped. Jaren strode into the room,
ressing myself into the darkest corner of the parlor
id, his voice a low, disrespectful drawl
t his insolence. "I hear you have elevated a filthy,
ressing my spine ag
iver down my spine. "She's a plaything, Grandmother. A
blood run cold. Jessenia thought she had won
a flaring. "It is time you took a proper Fated Mate, or at least a high-ranking Luna. Prin
y rejected the command. "I don't care about your Pack politics, and
the room. "I will take whoever I want, whenever I wa
turned and stormed out of the parlor,
authority in the Pack without a second thought. He was a monster entirely unbound by rules. If he ev
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