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sent a sharp reminder-she w

of boots echoed

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heard the metallic clank of chains unlocking. Only then

door groa

resence filling the cramped

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tried to shrink aw

wife. That is not how

tched. "Stay

he murmured, tilting his head. "

ease-just leave m

lash, his hand shot out,

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s voice was ice, each word sharpened to a blade. "But you will suffer

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," he promised. "But

ped down Le

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physically pulling the tr

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her, his gaze drifti

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a werewolf, you

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mark of r

lightly, his expr

as softer now, but no less dangerous. "Did she think that

r her. "It's for the better. I won't

ed out, leaving her wit

the ceiling,

did h

seen in he

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presence is blocking humans and other species from entering the clan," Beta C

attered scrolls with an irritated sigh.

, Al

to prepare his army. Have them draw the rogues into the woo

wed. "Yes

oice stopped him. "Go to my wife'

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antly. "Do not call her that agai

Cedric dropped to one k

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ds, one hand resting on his jaw as

Jade's voice echoed t

d at Darius's

human form. The narrow paths of the forest blurred past him, but he r

es without tiring, shifting only when he chose to. He enjoyed the

en, he

monstrous. A massive, black-furred beast emerged, standing on two feet,

anything?" Darius a

er the field," his wolf r

ring. Over a hundred and fifty rogues stoo

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The ground

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spun, slashing with enough force to send the wolf'

o escape. He wo

into muscle. The wolf howled in agony, but Draven silenced it wi

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ground, his teeth closing over its skull. A quick j

ike a shadow of death, leav

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as the

hat he was

is human form-fully clothed, untouched

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