Beaumo
the potion. The empty bowl slipped from his trembling fingers and sh
stol, though my grip remaine
ange, unfamiliar heat was blooming in his belly, and
bling back a step. "Why
ur own medicine," I said,
less, before the drug fully took hold. And even less ti
the room swimming in a haze of heat and rising desire. He was losing cont
y thin nightgown. The cool fabric was a shield, a barrier against the sordid
ck. A sliver of cold night air sliced into the room, a wel
cus. He was no longer a man. He was a beast. The potion had stripped away every shred of his reason, leaving only a mindless, raging animal. He was compl
ble upon that scene. The noble Alpha werewolf would witness with his own eyes his cherished granddaughter bei
ed. I was the director now. Cand
the hallway, shattering the silence. "Alistair! You mu
oice. Perf
inally broke through
y. With a guttural roar that was more ani
for this. What I did next was self-d
- a she-wolf's right to protect herself. As he blundered past me, my foot shot out, not at him, but at the metal food thermos I ha
oss the polished floor like a curling stone, di
madness to react. He could no longer perceive his surroundings, nof gravit
ied him forward. I never pushed him. I never touched him beyond that evas
body pitched forward, out of control. He fla
ver the low raili
ond, he was silhouetted
he wa
from the garden below, followed
d it. Broken, perhaps - but breat
stepped back, melting into the deep sh
e bedroom door burst ope
ock and righteous fury, my grandfather Alistair
e to catch th
stage wa
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