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ting room and curled up in a corner,
on Hicks-my adoptive father. His voice was s
dre was just a little upset. Come h
ter Brenda told them about the locket,
ur business," I said, my
ne. "Kira, let's talk. At the downtown legal center
ut it was also my chance t
and Deidre were already seated with their law
t I possess zero supernatural ancestry, that I am a biologically defective wolfless human, and that I forfeit all past, pre
grants full warrior-tier stipends to households with pure bloodlines. Your presence on our family registry is dragging
old, amused smirk touch my lips. "Are you tryi
f room and board in a shifter household costs at least a million dollars on the open market. We took in a broken stray. If you don't sign this
r bandaged hand. "Sign it, Kira. Or Dylan's pack will
small-minded cruelty of creatures who thought they ruled the wo
and picked u
d-plated pen. "Wise choice, you
parchment was deafeni
ed entirely. Bren
n into quarters, then into eighths. I raised my hands and let the white confetti
ists onto the table, his eyes flaring yellow with low-tier
assment of filing a fraudule
s jacket, exposing both of my slend
scar tissue-the indelible, chemical burn marks
Vance visibly recoil in horror. "A forbidden blood ritual under the Continental Shifter Concord. You kidnapped an infant, bo
all color. "You... how
put over my head, was paid for with my blood. Our debt is settled. T
nce room, ignoring the furious curses
doors of the municipal building and st
buzzed in
al satellite photograph showing the exact legal center plaza where I was curre
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here. L
tilted my head towar
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