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ike a m

. Fear kept me from losing what little sanity I had left. But through all those lifeless years, only one soul stayed by

there, a part of me

bri

shment burned into my very soul. Centuries ago, I fought a demon. I thought I cou

urse

hains, ethereal, ancient, alive, wrapped around my very essence. They didn't just bind me. They

person coul

ted b

see the chains. Tou

s. Not even in the 90s. And now, in the 2020s

and women in masks who bidded on living beings like cattle. But I came anyway.

last time. I

I fel

raw, powe

. Something about her screamed at me. My wolf stir

e

stepped forward

hispers.

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ol

age. She looked a

rr

o I was. Ev

he tried to speak, to pull away

" she cried. "Let go

ed her

blink, we

traight to th

stone floor of the grand hall. Her eyes da

coldly, "is y

at me like

are my mate. We wi

uted. "I'm not marrying a

spond with word

onlight streaming through the glass dome, I scratche

eamed.

pped, limp,

hing in m

nd. It

ed inside. She's the one. I

d. The chains i

ight be

e up, she wa

er skin pale. Her eyes

e am

oom. "You're in my house. You'r

ng that! What are you talking a

st

omething y

in...white, elegant, shimmering with

e're to have a ceremon

he wall. "I'm not doing

he st

aw my

y wolf had risen again,

I said quietly. "All else

immediately. Everyone feared me o

ame into the

d in t

efo

d fear. But also... s

t pounding. This was

the one. If not... I had to end h

s shifted around the dark marble

ep forward.

idn't

wned.

ntil she was standing right before me. Close enough to hear my br

r kept th

asn't just fear. There was somethin

red. "She's

y shirt and pulled it o

urning her face away. "Wh

e of my lips. "What? You

hirt on," she hi

k at

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. At.

ly. Her lashes fluttered. I could see the confu

I asked, voice

ed. "See.

ns. They'

ath shaky. "There's nothing t

loser. "L

anything!" Her voi

led tighter, like it always did when I was disapp

," I muttered. "Y

hed fo

e stumbled back. "W-

asn't my bride. And if she wasn't my bride, I had to end he

sed m

ws sha

whim

into me, knocking me off my feet. I crashed

t th

up at her

adn't

, chest rising and falling

"That power. It

from my lip, my eyes loc

away. "I don't know... what are you

" I barked, my grip tig

af in the wind. Her lips quivered. Her eyes, wide w

I growle

th

rimming with tears she

dark, untamed, lycan. The air around

nd act like you don't know ho

r I don't

her closer. "That powe

weakly gripping my arms

shoul

. Right now. I'd done it before t

thing st

r off me. "Take her t

rds sti

doesn't know how to speak, maybe h

way, voice

be wat