The Alpha Marshal's Regretful Annulment

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her designer nightgown. The room was dim, lit only by the ambie

the floor from the master bathroom. Pure, unrestrained an

lass door exp

és-the man who had driven his sword through her heart in a life that no longer existed. His uniform was ha

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t here in this suite, she

. Meredith is the adopted daughter of the Shields royal family, who has played the role

ne inducers into his cup, then used her own

spirit. A mark of a "zero" woman. Worth

hat mark meant he could never get rid of her. A "zero" w

over the following years. Until the seven of them joined forces to ex

inal timeline, nothing had happened yet-she hadn't moved toward him, an

s Lantis

e stayed, if she let this play out the way it had before, everything

to lea

stand, but her legs were jelly. Her knees b

ad snapped

t," he ras

, but because she had loved him with a mad, consuming love. Down to the bone. The kind o

ward. Her eyes were wide with a t

ofa, grabbing a pillow and clutching

rough the haze. This reaction was wrong. She

im. He fell to his knees, his hands di

xistence, twitching nervously. A sign of catastrophic failure-a high beastman l

ng pheromones immediately, he would die. Or worse, his mind woul

, nonexistent. Trying to soothe him would be suic

ure, desperate instinct. His body craved the only other living creature in

ling but laced with a command she didn't know

tbeat. But the beast was st

n elevator arriving on their floor. Meredith and th

nted for the bedroom, putting

d it with predatory

o those inhuman eyes, and said, "I am

Confusion. Recog

lun

found the drawer and ripped it open. The first-aid kit. Bandages.

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't try t

g with his chest. For a single heartbeat, he was stunned. In that heartbeat, G

t was ins

d. Then his mass

white light

tiger lay unconscious on the ruined

away. Her entire body ached. Her wrist was already darkeni

the voices ou

s the room, Meredith

rine tone. "I saw them go in

ght them, just like in her past

been caught in the corridor, her fac

would make th

oom, and the bruise blooming on her wrist. This scene t

lling her torn nightgown tight a