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is eve

Victoria Parson knew this truth better than anyone. The media fawned upon her family, commending

hred one another to pieces for the Matriarch's benison. Victoria had no

world she kne

e Built

r reflection in the mirror. The dark emerald gow

silly," she

y snorted, lofting a pillow

say, more battle-fiel

r little empires, all the while strutting their success in

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ly. "Let's just m

k like you'd rather be eaten by rogues than 

a little. "That's

e thing that she still tu

her. And the Alpha who

omised her a future. A bond. A love that would

d have kn

nt of D

ht the window i

ria s

d out front. He hadn't in

murmured. "J

om her phone. "Weir

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ange twisting 

the door when a voice in the

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sister said in a whispe

e - answered, low and like

the color drai

frowned. "O f**kin

hey passed through the pale-lit hall

pened with a creak. Then - a soft

She didn't want to know. S

y taken out her phone

to see

ered

g. She could hear them - hushed whispers, the

he sound tha

ason's voice. J

stiffened

tightly her knuckles turned white. Slowly, carefully, she slid th

smell it. The thick musk of lust-Jason

wled. "I love it

her teeth so ha

ess. "Tell me, Jason... a

en-the fina

now yo

nside Victo

to be enough. Had given, had

for

ry himself into

d anger curled in her

aled next to her. "I rec

ed in her ears, drowning out the sound of anything

elt too tight, too chokin

eded t

f Unl

slapped at her as s

ragged. Tears welled

t within her, ang

nds wer

ken theirs withou

e clutched the hem of her dress. She wanted to scream. S

le beh

rned s

so

ed, hair tousled, but he

began, his voic

snap

ht of her fury shook the earth

ned. "You don'

lu

of an eye, claws now embedded into his thr

frayed breaths. Her wolf was

d, her voice trembling w

vered, but he remained

deep. Blood oozed from her fingertips and stained t

't pull away. Didn't fight ba

. He should be afraid. He sh

ked sa

realization hitting h

sn't a

n't some

never meant

ything. The sly little smirk, the tw

ayed her.

e oozing in alongside a far m

he had be

she had

done one criti

nderesti

e curled Victoria's li

was over. He tho

ize whom he ha

ake Jason Welch live l