Burned by My Ex, Reborn as His King's Mate

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cheers vibrating through the air. My parents, Alpha Bastian and Luna Athena, stood proudly beside Dariu

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the blood of your pack-do you, Darius Harlow, choose this woman

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as he sat beside me, til

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