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k to the Alston family castle. Barak Schaefer was wait

odline disownment documents at my face. The paper edges s

of trash dares to come back? Do you s

the floor, my hands twistin

rky eyes filled with disgust and greed. Three years after my mother died, he'd

of Emerald Bay," he said, jer

n the ICU! You promised you'd keep paying for his life-support crys

hat crippled Alpha? I had his breathing tubes pulled

head. The blood in m

ngernails reaching for his face. "Jermai

is ring flashed beneath the chandelier as I flew backward and sl

arked, straigh

d in, twisted my arms behind my back, an

tory gates!" Barak shouted after us. "If she

rough the wrought-iron gates. My knees smashed against the ja

d over my bruised face, carrying my blood and tears into the mud. I dug my fing

f rain. A gray medical sedan screeched to a halt

ntice brother who had always protected me, ran into the storm without an umbrell

oice trembled. "I'm ge

forehead against his rain-soaked coat, and the last of my strength

ay. We traveled thousands of miles north t

oom at a border clinic, Doyle approached me

widening. "You're pregnant. Twins... Thei

wo tiny heartbeats throbbed beneath my skin. Little by little, the fear faded