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ug, light flo

e room swam into focus. White walls. Ins

el to see again

. "Like I've been drowning, and

something into his tablet. "The

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so happy to see

r. Ward. Than

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r. Something careful in it. A little sad,

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et and found the small velvet box. A r

heir house, get down on one knee, a

s promised. Then Stella Moore, Victor's childhood friend and admirer, had gott

nly the elders had gotten her out of the country in time. Then Victor spent the whole year making it up to Ava, chasi

ng to one thing: whatever else

ry failed, she'd reject him herself, so he'd

nd surely that was the Moon

dark glasses, planning to save the news of her sig

e door open, and stepped in

e stopp

d a handbag sat by the

n, clear and unmistakable, and the d

the stairs on trembling legs and s

purred, "fuck me hard,

ever forget

la M

linded her. And from the lazy familiarity

ext sixty seconds, was the smalles

fted through the gap. "Your li

I have never marked her. S

sical price, a sharp, tearing pain through the bond. Victor had

sharpened beneath the sweetness. "

rl if I didn't have to? I've spent a year playing n

ay, Ava went

igh and thin, like a wire pulled too tight. She

eepless nights, the way he'd held her when she'd sobbed

the whole time, we

und for what?" Stell

is voice cooled, businesslike. "The Moon Goddess handed me a wolfless mate and called it destiny. I have ne

h stopped i

pressed. "Y

ally. She will reject me first, out of some noble little urge to set me free, and everyone will weep for the tragic Alpha wh

rt shatter into

d have made her rejection the last, kind

r that gift like a knife he'd

. She'd carried it all the way ho

tella's voice

im." The bed creaked as he shifted. "If I'm mated and married when the

, blind l

far away. She'll cry, she'll get over it." He

ye

day of

s. When she opened them, the ringing was

ly what she wa

othed her face into the blank, lost look she'd

pushed

nd searching. "Victor, are you hom

econd, pu

chest. Victor shot upright, gra

eiling. She tapped her cane against the doorf

ly, they r

ldn't s

ly motioned at Stella to keep quiet, and his whole tone changed, slidi

ack from the hospital alone? Do you know how dangerous that

really were blind, she'd

slow, lazy, unbothered. Then she crossed to Victor's side,

Ava the w

tightened o

front of her, tapping the floor like she

hand rising to her templ

as she lost her balance, and ca

stumbled back, han

e pitched forward, stra

ed, groping in the air.

of Stella's sobbing, tilted her head, and let t

ere someone else