Bound No More

e, with luxury French lace framing the windows and silk sheets spread across the bed like liquid gold. Soft French music hummed low i

perfect. Her reflection stared back at her . A bride carved out of silk and diamonds.

teenth

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ted for the first time. One by one, her classmates took their turn, their wolves emerging in flashes of light and purpose. Her best friends, Donna and St

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aited in the other room a handcrafted masterpiece of silk, lace, and pearls. Downstair

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t in his arms that night. How he'd swooped in like a knigh

was the beginning

it was the begi