an'
o campus, classes h
lecture was, telling myself I was only passing through. I'd just see her
ard two she-wolves, heads close to
nt after the Canadian on
hink before my bod
nts, following her scent down the hall
e
hat had happened. Aurora was already gone, leaving behind the scen
hen my wolf had pushed
could barely tell where he ended and I began anymore. A growl rumbled lo
her little
on her face, as if she hadn't been
oing on here?" My v
her ear, that smile growing sweeter, like it could fool anyone
ok a step closer. "Yo
She started walking toward me slowly, flipping her hair over one shoulder, pu
credit. It was a
ike this. Aggressive about what they wanted, openly
fights with any other girl who came too close, marking her territory in
in all my life. So I had taken her to bed once, maybe twice, and gotte
nadian was
pacing since. I could not sleep without seeing her face. I could not breathe in our hou
ated he
one-deep part of me knew with absolute certainty that she was not g
take her off my m
ve, and her voice dropped to something she probably though
down at
ked her in
t tou
le disa
ig deal out of not
t mind staying
do you care so much ab
nt, I had
she wa
so naturally that
ca before my wolf could
oldly. "If I hear you've bothered
ait for he
ollowing me, the whispers already starti
r had just def
ngle soul and their consequences, had just sho
hem w
for anyone before because no
this, because as far as I was concerned, th
allowed t
e exc
or before I caught her scent again. It
llow
he was all right. Telling myself I only wan
last corner an
s alread
her cheek, his thumb wiping a tear off her face wi
es were dark and wet against her skin. She was letting my brother
g, low and soft. "Hey. Y
ld no
my brother do the thing
the words I could not get out of my mouth, even when I
father's study that morning, he
y, going over the patrol repo
his face. Surprise, maybe. It had been a long time since I had
. "You came to me yourself. So
dn't
lan for keepin
narrowe
you cared so much
me out sharper than I meant
asking for war. An unmated Silver Wolf. And you're letting her wal
back in his cha
her up like an animal? Hide her in the e
n't a
ywhere but at him, because I didn't hav
bridge of his n
o. A Silver Wolf strengthens any bloodline she joins. Every Alpha within five h
the
a hand, an
n as possible." He said it plainly, lik
it. Her mother already agrees. We'll hold a small gathering, quietly, and choos
ma
ewhere in my chest
ad, rotting body before I let
og
idn't sound like mine. "Wh
re he could
before I had to stop and press
ma
d stand beside her at gatherings, pu
, snarling a single word over and over,
u
ue. It could
ked through our front door, dripping rain on our floor. She was a Silver Wolf, a w
t stop thinki
cus. My own brother wanted her now, putting his hands all over her in the hallway like
ing his head off
ol would feel her allure. Soon there'd be a dozen of
.
ng in the corridor again, with my broth
ooke
and there was not a single expression on his face
Her face was still p
and the wolf in me roared so lou
ned a
shoved them open with my shoulder and stumble
changing before I ha
ropped down low and wide around me as I hit the ground on
the school w
my lungs and the rain finally
ld not feel her s
ame word over and over inside my chest, the one word I had
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