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back pressed against the wood. The trembling started t

isting the knob until the water was scalding. It poured o

ent away. But it was no use. It felt like it wa

odless lips, and a constellation of purple b

shame. Reminders of

three days in the past, at the pack gatheri

an Stephenson, the Alpha of the Stephenson Pack, my intended mate si

k another woman

said, his voice ringing out for all to hear. "I, Kiera

tearing pain on both souls. But the one who is rejected bears the double

offered whispers and mocking laughter

as too busy schmoozing with the Stephenson elders, as if i

dug into my palms, the shar

t the first powerful man who wasn't part of that world. I thought

he food chain. An Alpha a thousand times more pow

ers had also been betrayed. An arranged mate, a woman f

ew my

t bring comfort.

ayed, would have a possessiven

I would not be a prize won,

g room, grabbing my phone. I couldn't tell

just what if, a really powerful, rea

ll came thro

Her face, covered in a green

e stripper, do you? Is he stalking you?

he seems to think it was

bodies are the worst! Don't you worry, you tell me who

"I don't want to make a scene

, you can't fight force with force. You have to make

d stung, a fresh j

idea. "An insulting amount of money. Like you're paying off

a beacon in my

ng, could surely not tolerate being treated like a commo

illiant, te

oing to