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suppose

s, the ones who spoke of mate bonds as if they w

they

p, sharp and merciless, shaping you into

, I was being

ds clenched into fists, nails cutting into my palms. Every

an had spoke

of the Lycans, reject you

s steady. Un

beat of

syllable left his mo

entle. It w

arp teeth, sinking into my s

owl, the force of it sending a violent tremor through my body

red. My lungs

s was coming. I

new it would

room was deathly si

first, then a slow-buil

ere la

g through the pain, throu

Courtiers.

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-wolf who thought she

's disca

jo

r lips curved in satisfaction.

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dn't lo

s jaw tight, but his silenc

wa

sing like a storm. He had don

even man eno

et them

think thi

show t

ed. My breath came in shallow bursts, my wolf a we

nd was

one last time, something inside

my heel and

not lo

de the palace gates, the g

und wa

s ex

dy still trembled from the severed bond, but I wouldn't let

through the cobbled streets, past the noble di

pped me. N

I was not

without

without

I would be

long I walked. H

heavier the air became-thick with mag

od Forest l

one entered

o one ret

o

ped fo

dows swallo

ood Forest

tling leaves, whispering winds, and the qu

breathed. It wa

was

gh my body. My muscles ached, my throat was raw, and my wolf-what

d shattered some

r that had once held me steady. Now, I was adrif

rocks. My bare feet were cut, raw and bleeding, but the pain was di

t it ma

enter. If the creatures lurking in its shadows didn't tear

at was t

s where I was

echoed thro

fr

ck of my neck stood

omeone-was

enses were dull, weakened from the mate bond's

u

idn

squared my shoul

eyes-dark, cold, a

ering figure cloaked in shadow. His prese

t not just

Alp

s scent was nothing like Kieran's. It was darker

arp and assessing, before

't belon

, rough-a blade dr

meeting his stare. I refus

n his expression. Amu

ht caught the hard planes of his face-strong jaw, sh

in the way only a

e hat

ll you," he

ld my ground. I wasn't af

ot back. "You'd be

in his eye

r of us moved. The forest

something in his

ression

denial, something deep

rse, strangled. Like h

denly,

lt it

ll. Th

oddess's c

er, eyes burn

His voice is ice, final

ould break m

. "Good. I don

aw ticks. He wasn

ve-something stirs in the shad

stant, every