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, sustained growl in my chest, like a starving b

een

with fresh flowers woven through her hair. When she laughed, every eye in the square turned to her. The Alph

hem. Bloodmoon, Silvermoon, and Blackmoon stood in a three-way deadl

rmoon fell

filthy camps, chasing every lead, interrogating every rogue who might have known so

body thought it wa

ody knew I

d her shoulders, Aria leaning into

led in agon

g about her. Every time I saw Aria, I'd lo

into law school and Bloodmoon Pack business. The responsibility of inheriting the Alpha seat, t

ia had been through t

as sitting ac

Moonlight Cafe. Even in a crowd of a hu

e as delicate as they'd been fifteen year

s. Her cheeks were thinner than I remembered. Her hands reste

eized in my

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r meeting me,

w restless inside me, straining toward her, need

the way I'd talk to any other client.

lid a piece of paper across the

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My wolf let out a sharp,

yer on the West Coast. If you help me, I swear I'll never appear in

per for a long tim

ll help you?" I said. "D

er mouth curving into the faintest

te me. You're the only person on the entire We

mpered insi

ay from him. But

I just lowered my eyes t

e dropped a degree colder.

oked

nt to know what happened. Last t

d. Her fingers tight

'll leave right now." Her hand was

negotiating strategy,

ked at me. I looked at her. Her jaw tigh

in, even though it had long gone

That his mother had treated her like a servant, made her scrub floors on her knee

r grew. By the time she finished, i

mo

bas

and he'd treated her like a servant? He'd cheated

slowly until my wolf stoppe

terms?" My voic

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said. "The Lane

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an asset registered

was precise. "I grew up there. After Damon and I bonded,

he Silvermoon Alpha's daughter I rememb

se," I said. "Give

he'd prepared and went through i

d to understand: you're a packless Omega. The Werewolf Court won't award any si

ightened ano

for her

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stilled on

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nking. She knew exactly what she w

I said. "That'll serve y

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If it gets you away fr

at, then let out a soft

she said. "I never thought the person who hate

red a

Tell her you don't hate her. Tell her you've lo

ut

ck at my wol

ard myself say. And this time, I wasn

cking the words

address. Weston Hotel is in Bloodmoon terr

bli

n't n

ning back to Damon crying in the middle of the night. If you change you

t me, no give

erate. "Ronan, from the day I left Blackmoon, I

pa

't thank y

f being under the same roof as her was already making

across her face, barely perceptible-a shift, as

up. "I s

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