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the price I paid for taking a poisoned silv
ght miraculo
good news, the first thing I saw was my Alph
forcing my eyes to rem
know I c
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he dark curtain was drawn back from my eyes. For three years, I had inhabited a world of tota
dance of wax candles upon the stone walls. I could see the heavy oak doors of our gothic pile of a
Pack, the unchallenged lord of our territory. He is also my fa
Luna is the mother of the pack, a title that belongs to
e died o
now, that clean, wild scent was being smothered, choked by a cloying sweetness of black roses left to rot. It was the scen
was riding my mate on my bed. The bed that symb
t I had to part my lips just to draw a breath. I stood in the shadows
"When will you break the mate bond with the blind
time to prepare the ceremony," he murmured. His voice, the same voice that used the powe
ng the scene away. I walked out of the castle, the freezing air a shock against my thin chemise, and did not stop until my bare feet w
om my face before turning ba
skin rug in front of the roaring fireplace. They were holding each other tightly. I kept my
purposely released a heavy wave of her black rose scent. It was a direct challenge to my territory a
erate mockery of his Heat-the uncontrollable biological urge he was supposedly suffe
cent. He wanted his cake and to eat it too-to keep me as his revered, helpless Luna whil
errible cold." He pointed to the long wooden table across the
ough I had swallowed a fistful of ice shards, the cold spreading from my stomach to my v
b. It was the potion to cool his sexual urges for his mistress. I turned
," I said, my voice shaking. "P
leep in the guest room tonight," he lied smoothly. "I do not want to infect you with my
e flames warmed my skin, but
t with my mind. The Mind-Link i
d out to my mentor i
agic work? his ancient, wa
fall. I will return to the Coven in seve
my departure had
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