nora
alf-naked stranger, my hands still stained with his fever-sweat.
, his eyes darting from me to the man on
hoed off the stone walls. "How could you? With a... a rogue! In
now held nothing but disgust. I could see the thought plain on his face: He's glad he rejected me at the cere
ally simple and brutally effective. It wasn't enough to have me
hout thinking, I shifted my body, moving to stand between the stone slab and t
se amber eyes before they slid shut. In the instant Julian and Karmen had burst in, he had composed himself, his face going s
of the chase-it was all burned away by a cold, clear rage. "What I do
hority being questioned. "As a member of this pack, your conduct reflects on all
he two warriors behind
ing the path to the bed, a mother wolf defending her den. My vo
gotten. Julian stared, incredulous. An Omega, a wolfless Omega,
This was even better than she had planned. The mor
s heavy with menace. The air grew thick, heavy with the oppressive weight of his pheromones.
weak. Every instinct screamed
ce inches from mine, "I will n
nger. Maybe it was the doctor in me refusing to abandon a patient. Maybe it
on radiating from him. The air seemed to hum with a sudden, oppressive energy-the kind that usually accompanie
felt as though he were weighing me, watching to see how far a "wolfless" Omega would go
lare, finally moved. They started to circle aroun
bbing a loose stone from the floor. I was
wrapping around my wrist like a manacle of steel. The force of his grip se
away in disgust.
the edge of the stone slab. I fell agains
ing, their fingers just an inch
as quiet, almost lazy, yet it resonated with an a
a rather popular spot. Tell me, Sinclair, when did yo
snapped tow
p. He leaned back against the stone wall, one leg casually c
e, on the small, trembling, but unbroken line of my back. Ther
ony, who I had sedated and tended to, was now radiating an au
onfused to utterly, bone-chillingly white. The rec
whisper, laced with a terror
... Ce
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