tte
dark strands of hair against my cheeks. I stood at the corner of the s
y and leave my legal doc
still locked inside the fireproof lockbox under the foyer console. If I left
rising puddles, and marched straight
unlatched d
or wall. The three people huddled in the center of
er throat. "You dare kick my door? I will have the n
directly past Julian, heading straight fo
his tantrum! Just give Karmen the deed. I will personally write you a
ping around my sleeve. A wave of
d, my voice flat. "Don't touch
tightened in
Look at her. A dried-up Wolfless who doesn't even have a Heat cycle. No high-born Alpha would
arm out of J
k, I stepped into her space and sna
st skin echoed through
ashed sideways onto the sofa cushions. She let out an ear-splittin
inda roared, lunging at me wi
ripped the corner of the heavy wooden console and leaned d
t with the Pack Elder Council for systemic financial embezzlem
ace draining of color. Low-ranking pack members like her lived in mortal terror of the Elde
t brass dial on my lockbox, and
er seals, my passport, and my last remaining physical de
lt and frustration. "Did you really have to burn ev
over my shoulders and
redit at your firm," I said, meeting his shifting gaze. "Now that my blueprints
anger. "You were never a real woman to me! You lived like a machine, buried in
he'll drain your bank accounts fast
toward
ith raw hatred. "Walk out that door and you won't se
threshold, turnin
o since I was eighteen," I said calmly. "Yo
t the heavy brass key to the front
fee table, shattering a waterister, and no partner. Cross my path again, and
e door shut behind me, severing the
y skyline, shaking the concrete beneath my boots. I hugged my backpack to my
ed out weeks ago. Freezing rain blew rightunicator, trying to tap on a ride
threw up a shower of white static li
ning my forehead against the cding a sheet of muddy water flying across my knees. I staggered b
pressed my thumb into the center of my palm, diggi
morning, Victor Stone would demand answers
nder the broken roof, and began the long walk toward the
ghts flickered dimly through the dense curtain of ra
roar shattered the soun
ath my boots be
hrough the darkness behind me, casting m
lack steel that looked more like a military assault tank than a c
raged predator. And it was hea
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