MATED TO THE MONSTROUS CURSED LYCAN

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.a sharp, echoing slap. Derek groaned, doubling

ohc

asp

use everything was so wildly absurd. Was I... enjoying this? Watching

d. "Tell me, what do you want me to do to him?" His head ti

g this? I wasn'

eard my thou

aid, stepping closer, his voice dropping to a wh

h

k what he meant, guard

away!" he

is head lolled to the side, his body weak and limp.

a flame, the masked Lycan turned towa

" he growled. He gripped my

breath caugh

mmered, my feet instinc

dn't

wasn't just cold now. It was... wounde

d, words stru

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through me beneath the mask. "Don

t like that, something in me shifted. My heart ached a

d me blurred. My stomach lurched. My

ceilings. Shadows. We wer

chest heaved. "I hate this,"

ur home," he said,

ispered, bli

wered simply.

, I saw his eyes beneath the mask...stormy silver,

st," he sa

o...I'm not!" I snapped and spun away, but then paused. "Stop

et used to it. I'll do

ched. I wante

oice low, warning. "Don't try anything stu

gainst the wall, one hand beside

heart beati

me," he said, echoing the thought

his wa

gerously close. "But don't fall for me. You have one

h my hair. I stilled completely

can king I'd imagined. This was something e

he sudde

woman r

repared room. She'

, almost shri

unreadable behind the mask. "Yo

the bride. So now, you

lked away, his dark cloak s

Maid? Again? A

mentioned my

he f

oice echoed be

unished later for

ed. He was right in

appear like that," I mu

amazing." He t

k. That's her punishment for today.

oke, he van

id, eyeing me with a sligh

whispered. "Nic

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tly, my stomach sin

s to wash those plate

ed. "Are you

diculous, never-ending

suicide!

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e heard a ho

ushe

, faces down. One was l

were soa

t for a second, what he re

re me again, eye

east. Block your heart. Obey or

eyes as he dis

tered like lea

ne said, her voice

nk, my hands trembling as

ice... asking him to hel

d after Selene

asked, gl

the bride removes th

pa

removed... he dies.

at

odded. "Comp

ving that revelatio

ape, I just need to remove thos

o kill me," a voice

ate, but strong arms caught m

His eyes burn

orry

thoughts are loud. You're disturbing

ff from me like some

ice called f

ood there,

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ner... he'

pered, my thro

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red so hard it felt like it might crack m

sliced throu

nning toward the guards. "

mmediately like

m!" one shouted o

n, my fists trem

. "Did you ever actually plan to help me?

sti

you would've secured him properly! You le

epped closer, and the air

he asked, his voice low

wn. "I know you

strils

his eyes burning red. Claws slipped from his fingertips. "I pro

. this is

..he

nd my neck. My back slammed into the cold wa

d on his lips as his

laced with dark curiosity. "Loo

nd I gasped, fingers

imself, almost amused. "What do I care?"

..I'm done putt

squeeze

ing to my eyes. My legs kicked against the grou

..." I c