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I lifted my head and looked at him, perplexed.

- What? — I asked, shock written all over my face.

— I'm not going to reject you yet, Miss Craton. I have other plans for you. But you won't tell anyone in the village that we are partners. As I said before, if you do this, I will deny it. And I will brand you, and whoever you say, as renegades.

With that, he turned his back on me once again.

- Come back home. It's too late for a simple omega wolf like you to be here alone,” he said. And he disappeared into the bushes, leaving me there, dazed and hurt.

What did he want with me?

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Chloe

I returned home feeling completely defeated. I could feel exhaustion taking over my body.

I thought this is what happens when you turn into a wolf for the first time without having eaten a decent meal in the last **** hours.

Now that I stop to think about it, I wasted two days in a row crying non-stop, all because of my supposed soulmate.

I walked through the door and almost fell back when som