ra

y, my eyes tracking every de

clinging to Sel

ade slippers

radled in

ere al

eant for the future Lun

jumped up from the armchair, her e

green tea Omega scent, layering

s shivering last night, and the Alpha said I could borrow something

hand-painted porcelain my father had brought me from Vienna.

hes didn

hat made the beast under my

in his hands, watching another f

s supposed to protect t

d the door and invite

from behind me and pushed i

y voice flat and compl

by a low-rank scent. I hav

pathetic whimper, her e

arkened, his

own on the table w

om, a physical weight intended to crush the defianc

e Alpha's

his voice vibrating with unnatural pow

have collapsed u

s not mo

e potent than his. It was the dormant, silvered blood of the F

t even

letting his weak Command was

el," I mocked, a cold smile touchin

his brow furrowing in c

some of its unnatural edge. "She has no pack, no fami

bother

to a blind man wa

shing against Kael's arm, and heade

massive wal

hitched

vening gowns

flickered to the heavy, silver-backed mirror on the vanity. I knew the small, magically shielded scrying crysta

e in my throat, the prim

e back into its cage of bone and fl

ing jewelry and important

vy footstep

rframe of the closet, his a

scanning my suitcase. "You are moving out o

tcase shut and t

pposed weakness as a weapon," I told

your Mate to step back. That

re he could speak, I grabbed the handle

shold of the bedroom,

anquet," he said, his voice hard. "Do not

and resting on

ulder, my eyes gleam

" I promised softly. "You will f