THE WOLF WHO REJECTED ME

saw when I opened

man holding it

again,

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dn't b

use of t

I knew t

ross his left eyebrow. Golden eyes that belo

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e was L

apters I'd managed to read, s

allo

ssed harder a

s eyes narrowed

rted aroun

olves. Silver chandeliers. Blac

hung beyond the

oon G

he Blood M

ccuse her mate's childhood frie

ld reject her in fro

uld begin its spectac

he would make o

woul

to her knees, clutch Darian's trousers,

down at her

unce the words that

lackthorn, reject you, Lyr

ould shatter he

. Her family would disown he

he would die alone

the man hold

waiting for me t

calm settl

s world, it wouldn't be beca

to

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ted m

the knife d

ppled throu

s eyes

are give

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e crowd choke

nt comple

iginal Lyra had never s

cling harder. Every rejection had convinced her she nee

wasn't

creamed at a fictional chara

throw me into this ridiculous novel, th

wly lowere

ving strange

finally behav

w tigh

voice floated t

e. Don't mak

en stepped i

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n changed the mome

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es sof

a small

I no

something that the original

t incapable

t want to give

her eyes glistening with

I are close, but I swear to you, nothing

rly l

was

pulating the pack for years. She wanted Darian, the Lun

pose her, had fallen into

raphina's tr

I s

s wond

blin

ha

py for y

l fell

stare

s stopped halfwa

ackward, away f

you two would mak

dropped

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ed tow

ink I've said en

eyes burned

my mat

nded heavily

nd, something insi

unfamil

mate

cognized him. My wolf-small, frightened, and painfully lon

hand again

a sudden wave of sadness that wasn'

d to feel like a knife

Darian in

mean I have to accept b

ression

at evening, he looked

a slow

d to make a spectacle of me,

d my trem

e rested on the cerem

ked i

erupted

lunged

yr

pressed the blad

e of blood

bond sh

that my knees nearly buckled. Somewh

ed to

held Dari

much I love you," I whispe

ipped onto

'm done

face had

re you

d against

life you've pl

nt I could hear the rai

that were never spoken

r day fighting for a place in the hea

spread through th

on outside

n

ic

candle in the

ne sc

howl shook t

the wolve

ide my o

llap

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yr

the entire novel, the

whispered i

was neither m

nal

fr

r of the Moon Godd

art s

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made of b

standing beneath a sk

white fire rest

to reject you," the voice whispere

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