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with concern as the nurses finished the discharge paperwork. "

e tucking a strand of

pack" they kept referr

e the trepidation in my voice. "Maybe being around...your

sual contact sparking a shiver of awareness dow

ctive men and their dizzy

uld be illegal. "We've got a place all set up just for you. M

h the three of them, no matter ho

out of my depth with their insane wer

ad been a jumbled mess of conflicting memories and beliefs, my forme

n Luna Blackwood

wolf with not one, no

ruggled against the riptide of supernatural "truths," t

houghts at random, fragmentary scenes of violence and inhuman ferocit

e, Caleb, and Ryder's ruggedly handsome features, impr

instinctive was awakening within me - a primitive side that seemed

surrender to insa

omplished academic and res

al shapeshifter from

tever delusionalBreak they'd suffered that exp

ld find a way to escape their cultish

as the nurses handed me a set of fresh

lf-assurance and coiled po

ut we'd been on the road for nearly two, steadily leaving the city lights behi

ed, isolated wilderness, the more my

d into view - all towering steel and tinted glass surrounded by a

espassers weren't welcome

unsettling intensity, their body language and scrutinizing gazes

ped wryly from the front seat,

gaze glowing with a predatory edge in the rearview mirror. "We take securit

n forming in my throat as the heavily armed sen

scribed to, I was swiftly realizing it involved

- were organized, militant, with resources that

airs, thrust into their unsettling

ghtmare began, a frisson of very

eople, I wasn't just the cherished m

a pr

distance behind us as Zane maneuvered d

the tinted windows, interspersed with training yards where fera

trength and aggression permeat

children embracing fant

, disciplined...and thorou

ersized SUV towards a secluded residentia

glass that looked like it belonged in the pages of Architectu

down and laying low while

d pulling me flush against the solid wall of his chest. "Don't worry, once we've r

ized skin of my nape, igniting long-dormant f

dark, hooded eyes, their intensive stares raisin

with a muttered curse, hating th

ed authentic alpha dominance down to their very

nger building inside me. Because if they wer

igs," I challenged, squaring my shoulders in a semblance of bravado. "But ma

arthy masculinity as he trapped my gaze wit

Here, with your mates, you'

an unsettling mix of devotion and command, r

ange land, thrust into the heart of

combined virile presence, I realized with dawning trepidatio

eniably...