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pressed my spine flat against the cold

h palms against his bare shoulder

irt I was wearing, fixing on the faint crescent-moon bi

tors pulled your file before I ever set foot in this country. Five years married to Dillan Graves, and not one markin

nger's mouth made my stomach twist with

is none of yo

mb and forefinger clamping around my

. "Though I am curious how a woman married for five year

e water. Every drop of b

more than a despised ornament in the Graves estate-an Omega so benea

racked as I twisted my head, trying t

ser, trapping me

neither does the blood on my sheets. I was the one who broke you in-and I was the one who held back a

gh my veins. I swung my

y wrist out of midair

hanking me right now. If I hadn't held back at the last second, my

ale's scent gland to complete the Marking, an unbreakable soul-bond formed. If he had ma

as tears welled in my eyes. "Is it money? Tell me

pha dominion slammed into my chest, forcing my knees t

insect. "Do I look like a starving alley

ned his fingers and tossed my wrist aside, tur

lid his arms into it, every movement radiating th

nightstand where my clutch purse had fallen.

compact and phone back into the bag, my fing

k to him as I stood up. "If you breathe a single word of this to anyone

ere fastening a pair of platinum cufflinks, watching

how you're going to explain my scent on your skin to that worthless husband of yours. That herbal salve

y clutch, pulled out a travel bottle of heavy floral perfume,

xploded into the air. Across the room, the man'

toward the wet bar to pour two finge

on the nightstand made my heart skip-my flight back

d to put an ocean between myself an

my ruined heels. Barefoot and dressed only in his long white