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wept into the garden pavilion, flanked by four

r authority radiating from her high-born Alpha bloodline made

saw her

muddy flagstones, sobbing hyste

curve of her neck to the cold air. "My virtue has been ruined in front of the entire court! I fell into the water with Knight Lambe

d modesty laws to force a ma

me from the pi

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uck, and Emory bowed his

down at Dessie with co

g through the frosty air like a steel blade. "You dare use cheap tricker

olding fan, delivering her ver

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entirely int

as legally barred from ever becoming a reco

had been gutted with

despair on her face, a heavy we

stepped up

wrapped his massive, dry black fur

pha heat, saturated with the rich, into

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is lips brushing dangerously c

red. "Shame your body is made of glass." My pu

"Why help me, Lord Moss? I am wolfless, still betr

es to my frozen hands

andon their own mate to sa

golden guards herding

u my word-if Jaheim touches you again today, my spear

e in two lifetimes-but his heat was real, and I needed a living sh

r my chest, meeting his burning

len

der Silas Foster echo

en guard formed two rigi

a gilded scroll. "The daughters of the Richmond Pack, Knight Lambert,

no room fo

rembling Dessie, and our group was marched through the t

into the

ness of howling dire wolves supported a vaulte

d both sides of the throne room, their heavy Alpha

throne of white wolf bones, sat Alpha K

with a face dark as thunder, was my father-Jahei

locked onto me the

essie shuffled behind in mud-stained rags m

eshold to bow before the throne, Jaheim

er Alpha aura exploding in a violent shockwave. "You bring

ait for an e

and swung through the air with

so hard it sent me crashing sidewa

, and the warm, metallic taste of