on Group headqua
the coffee machine, wait
anyone bothering to remember your face. Her thick raven waves were pinned up neatly at the back of her head, not a single strand out of place. Her pale skin caught
ack. Cli
the wooden floor,
scapee from the North Barrens, Chloe had used her gray-fox hybrid blood, soft and
flickered beneath her expression. A mix of fear, env
d so late last ni
arcy's hand, lowering her
that a couple of unfamiliar wolves have been asking questions at the front desk. You pulled c
e cold and trembling. The kind of trembling that came from a place of real,
ike us, packless rogues with no territory, no backing, no one to vouch for us, we can't afford to lose what we've built here. I helped y
even without a wolf form, yes, but far more afraid of the nightmares hunting them from the frozen North. Ever
warmth seep into her palm, and her voice came out soft and calm. The voice of
eep your head down. As long as you follow what I told you, as long as you don
lmost like resentment. How could this woman, this no-wolf, defective Omega, be so calm when everything around them was falling
ed, forced a smile, and stepped bac
k. Top-floo
e air was thick with the suppressed Alpha auras of different territorial wolves. A tension that fe
, but he'd already struck a deal with a rival pack, planning to pin the entire thirty-million-dollar bad debt on Darcy, the "unconnected part-timer" with no one to
y across from the head of the table. She
ea
urmur in the room died instantly, as if some
ngston w
e'd just stepped off a battlefield and hadn't bothered to wipe the blood off his hands. With each step he took, the air thickened with a pressure that carri
look
ontrol in the elevator last night. He was cold. Regal. Untouchable. A king seated on his throne, looking do
of his lower lip, still beaded with blood at the seam. He'd
warning, locking on with lethal precision. There was no warmth in that gaze, no recogn
n the room seemed
ay down to her right hand resting on the keyboard. The back of that hand still bore three thin scratches from hi
t behind her instead of ten feet away at the head of the table. It took everything she had n
nse to the superior Alpha's pressure. She didn't look away. Instead, she lifted her chin slightly, meeting that suffocating w
e. A deep gold flicker stirred behind his ir
rackled between them, more ferocious than any words could be. A battle of wills fo
eg
rse, like a string stretched to its breaking point
ton. The risk assessment for this billion-dollar merger has uncovered massive bad-d
jerking his chin toward the
o the presentation station. Her heels clicked agains
rive, and let her fingers fly across the keyboard, overwriting
ck embezzlement scheme." Darcy's voice came out clear and
-sharp fund flow chart. Red arrows traced every corrupt tran
"Darcy! What the hell are you putting
the Thorne pack in the North Barrens." Darcy arched an eyebrow, her gaze cold enough to freeze f
om
glances. The director's carefully constructed narrative collapsed in real time, and
The North Barrens offshore channel has ancient contractual encryption! There's
oug
presence descended like a mountain, silencing the chaos instantly. The roo
e wolf locking onto its prey, muscles coiled for the kill. His gaze swept over the
re contract is known to no more than three people in th
l face curved into a composed smile. The kind of sm
he risk system's underlying logic shares the
ace had gone from white to a sickly gray, the color of a ma
for territorial treason." Asher's word
or out of the room. His legs dragged against the carp
arcy shine under the spotlight. The envy and complexity in her eyes burned deeper t
minant gaze landed on Darcy li
Risk Officer for this billion-doll
estion the appointment. The representatives from the five pack
The whispers that had been sharp with mockery an hour ago were now sharp with something else. Respec
f the boardroom, Asher's chief aide was already waiting
ek black card wit
on is waiting for you i
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