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rd to look int

g on what looked like a very soft pillow, I didn't see

hone closer to my face. "L

disbelievingly.

weren't a thing any

ed, I could see sh

his Villa to formally celebrate his reign as Alpha, and he has

eleased a shitstorm, and

'd been living under a rock since I was

hell is L

ter a few beats, Anna moaned.

but something weighed a

morning sky after it rained, and as I stared into them, it felt like he was lo

d of The Devil Al

ts of my latest lycanthropy book. I hadn't relented in m

s he p

ead to look at her. "Don't look at me

got to get your head out of those

massive clusterfuck as we know it, so no thanks. Besi

f world ridiculous. I really envy you. If I went through life as

oversaw the actions of every witch, enforced rules that shouldn't be bro

itches were grumpy old ladies, a

," Anna said out loud. "I

beat picking up rate strange

iling. "Every person who matters in this worl

d. "Who says I wan

yes. "You do

rse not

d be nice to kn

I'd find a pack. But I'd still have painful

still tainted w

lpha which was highly improbabl

e topic as those blue eyes o

out him that t

wallowing. "Do you kno

itch that came close to findin

my hands. "I'm reading abo

nsformations on the full moon. He married an Impure, so he threw his entir

ickled. "I

could find it and modify it. I had witchcr

ow the ing

Though I did hear somewhere that he passed it on to his daug

ad sparked immediately

person didn't document their research

on the sofa I was curled up in, annoyed at t

*

event in two weeks. Would

outh with a napkin, leaning

ding events. Unlike my adopted mother, I was

s celebrat

choked on

are yo

n't get his face out of my mind. Those eyes.

murmured, clea

e uncertainty b

came with me just this once. Liam's father was a good friend of mine,

e's Alp

know o

to stop thinking of him since this afternoon. And she had no idea I was fr

u might end up enjo

ting up. "I'm going to bed. Goo

ving the d

of Jack Williams descendants, I needed to know. Other than his

about the man or anything about his family except how muc

ck for family names to see

tist, I had access to a lot of inf

ow naked. I had about two weeks until the next full moon

healed pretty fast. Given how much pain was inflicted on my body durin

henever I closed my eyes, just like now,

her agitation at the image. Even s

made me feel so.

what it was about him that made me so apprehensive, but another

and I hadn't even met him, what