Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Claimed by the Lycan Regent

Kensin

s rushed, accompanied by the distinct clan

d by someone who wanted everyone in

amber remained heavy with the sweet, sicken

lf would smell the heat the sec

I muttered, my fingernai

it for Vict

hed floor-to-ceiling windows

apes and ripped them aside, letting t

and shoved all three wooden fra

thern peaks howled into the

with pine needles and frost

on the desk and sent the curtains sna

ipping the warm, heavy scent of rut from the sto

round my legs, the bitter cold numbing my feverish skin

his heavy black officer's cloak

tensity that felt heavie

remarked, tilting his head sl

pulling my dark woolen traveling cloak from the hook b

he boots came to

er-in-law, Beatrice Beaumont, lea

sure every archway is blocked! Do

, thick with fake concern

nd them... how do we ha

Regent will have no choice but to sign your Alpha succession decree to bury the scandal

smile touching the corners of his mouth; a look of playful amusement fl

me, and with a look of surprise on my face, he reached for the edge of the open wind

released his grip, leaped lightly onto the wall, a

into the room.Standing by the wind

ical to what they had whispered

on the velvet settee near the dying fire, and picked

e's screech pierced the

amber as an iron-tipped battering ram sl

groaned, then snappe

rst inward, slamming a

hand gripping the pommel of his broadswor

and an obsidian headpiece, flanked by four senior pack elders and e

cherous-" Tristan's roar di

ir eyes was not a den

o discarded dresses, and no nak

windows, an immaculate bed covered in plain wool, and me, sitt

he empty room, his eyes bulging as he

froze solid, her jaw dropp