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executive team regarding 'Project Guillotine.' The photo from Sloane of Elliott giving Katy the Ca
cent of the CEO who had just ordered a corporate massacre. From a hidden safe in my walk-in closet, I retrieved a beautifully wrapped,
iott monitored-and took a deep breath, perfe
l quality as if I'd been crying. "Elliott? I'm back from the studio. I was just wo
He thought my call, my fragile tone, was a desperate olive br
ess that made me look ethereal and breakable. My face was intentionally pale, my eyes cleverly shadow
ion. He held up a diamond necklace-a glittering, expensive apology meant to buy my sil
und my neck. In the mirror, I saw us: the powerful
e my hand. I didn't pull away, but I let my fingers lie completely limp and ice-cold in his
isies. We moved through the crowd, smiling, accepting endless compliments on what a "
red boy, a prodigy in the gaming world, was awkward and s
," he stammered, rever
said warmly. "And you can ca
could even respond, Elliott's arm snaked around my wai
," Elliott said, his smile
ench of his hypocrisy, was suffocating. "I need to use the
down a quiet hallway and stepped out onto a deserted s
vy shadows and large potted ferns, I heard voi
ly familiar. Kristofer
s voice dripping with absolute scorn. "An Omega who can't even a
te wolf whose bloodline was older and purer than any arrogant Alpha in this entire room. But I had hidden her so dee
man chimed in. "Can't even produce an hei
with a sneer. "Just wait. She won't be around for much longer. My sister Katy is a
nt, pathetic assumptions. I felt no anger. No hurt. It was like listening to ants loudly d
sing to bring a child into this sham of a marriage. A failure? My c
lk away, leaving the insec
st me, moving with a speed an
untamed Alpha power w
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