nora
rtless and blinding moonlight. The moonlight was warm on m
creating a tense standoff in the small clearing outside the hidden entrance. A few other pack mem
ely by a neatly dressed and perfectly composed Alpha C
ugh shades of white and r
to him, my steps even and measured. I stopped a foot
ar and loud enough for everyone to hear
ced into this by the omega he had so publicly discarded-it w
h me," he growled, h
ous voice drifted from behind me. "Is she pus
ore settling on me. His tone was conversational, as if discussing the weather. "Tell me, Doctor, what is th
my part. "I'm not familiar with that par
ightly, though his eyes were chips of ice. "Ban
angled cry. The blood drained from Julian's face, leaving it a pas
g with the ancient, formal language of our people. "I, Eleonora C
jaw working. The internal battl
hesit
aps my request is too much to ask. If he is unwilling, then pleas
eigned retreat that backed hi
pproval. He turned his full,
two choices. Say the words, right here, right now. Or my guards
step forward, his hand resting on the hilt of the la
new he h
He looked at me, and the words were dragged fr
reject you, Eleonor
onizing pain ripped through my very soul. This was the price of the rejection, the severing of
swam. But I would not fall.
ce trembling but clear. "I, Eleon
hereal thread conn
rickle of blood appeared at the corner of h
sion going dark. Just as my legs gave out, a strong arm
nst a solid
ody a firm anchor in a sea of pain, shiel
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