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as my

ring at me wit

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oz

frozen

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of

ed the wolf's massive chest rise and fall, I felt no true danger. Every instinct in m

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stepped

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of subm

trembled. "

soft whine, eyes

uld'v

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side me had just

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," he said quietly. "I never wanted

sandpaper. "Then how di

d there was sorrow

d at hi

careful, like I was a

use I've killed. I've hunted. I've done things no man should do. And you... you are ligh

was breathin

word felt strange on my tongue. "And

esit

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shifted und

just a metap

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ows resting on his knees. His v

sts. We're part of an old lineage-ancient blood tied to the

ly. "You keep saying 'w

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e matin

his eyes was something r

n divine. We're pulled to them by something we don't control. It's

peated. "Like s

nod

aced down

art of this world. You're saying I'

," he said. "Not until y

e house. The handshake. The way

o

felt

n t

d, suddenly exhausted

our choic

ing here in the woods with a werewolf who just told me I'm bond

you without your consent. I still don't. That's

e someone else

's what

more than it

stump, head in my han

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despite e

nd tired and stunned,

closer, crouc

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t him-real

had haunted my childhood and retur

've been

ached out and

like com

into campus. I didn't even

g, running the events of the nigh

. Wolf

t should

my body was

wasn't

g ancient inside me h

t mean I trust

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nd never returning to the world they came from. Of women who touched the bon

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