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Two hundred and thirty nine
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TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Two hundred and forty
Cameron POV My fists stayed clenched as Nadia blocked the shortest path to the door without making it obvious, while Franklin seized the overnight bag I'd packed to leave."Cameron, nobody's asking you to stay with her forever," Nadia said. "We're asking you not to make a permanent decision while you're furious."I threw the stack of reports onto the desk."I've never been more certain of anything." My voice shook with anger. "She was filing reports and progress updates on me while I was carrying her to doctors because I thought she was dying."Every panic Evangeline had caused us was a lie. They had taken something as sacred as trust and reduced it to measurable progress inside an operation."There's nothing left to fix. She made it clear that I'm just livestock. Stop standing in my way.""We're trying to keep you alive," Franklin said. "If dissolving the bond were as simple as doing the rejection ritual, I'd drive you there myself. But we don't know enough. Every person we've spoke
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Two hundred and thirty nine
A strange reluctance settled over me as I followed Victoria out. Cassidy was the only familiar person in this place. Victoria was already halfway to the door by the time I caught up."How far along are you?" she asked as we headed down the hallway."Almost six months."She glanced at my stomach with a faraway smile. "You'll probably get tired of everyone asking you that.""I doubt it." I smiled. "You must be one of the older members."Victoria let out a scoff."Not even close. I've been here a month."I wondered what her story was. Every woman I'd met here seemed to carry one, but asking would be rude.We continued walking."So..." she said. "Which Alpha is your case tied to?""Alpha Cameron. Wild Fangs."She stopped. I didn't miss the flash of surprise that crossed her face before it disappeared. Then she whispered, "Evangeline.""You know her?""Sort of," she said.Questions rushed through my mind. Was she close to Evangeline? She didn't seem to want to say more, so I let the silenc
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Two hundred and thirty eight
Cassidy still sounded strained over the phone, like I was interrupting her. Before, that would have made me anxious. Now I knew better."I wanted to confirm tomorrow.""It's still tomorrow.""I know. I mean... should Alpha Kieran's guard drop me at your place?"A short silence followed."Yes. Eight-thirty. One second late and you're on your own.""I'll be there."The call ended before I could say anything else.For someone who claimed she didn't want company, she seemed to be getting more bearable to my presence, even though nothing had changed between us, but she no longer felt like a stranger.My mom looked up from the couch."Everything settled?"I nodded, and she grew quiet."I still think you shouldn't become too attached."The words caught me off guard, and she explained herself."We don't want to get our hopes crushed because we still don't know their decision. If they say no, we walk away."I understood what she meant. If the daughters decided I wasn't worth the cost, Cassidy
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Two hundred and thirty seven
The guard who'd driven me had already pulled away by the time I reached Cassidy's front door. She lived on the military base, perhaps trying to lose herself in the sterile routine of the place to forget what had happened to her.Cassidy opened the door before I could even raise my hand to knock."You're on time," she muttered, stepping back to let me pass.Her space was sparse but clean, filled with simple handmade furniture and collections neatly arranged on shelves."I need to use the bathroom."She pointed down the hallway. As I walked past, a wall of photographs caught my eye. There was a man who must have been her late husband, an older woman sharing Cassidy's face, and a blue-eyed boy captured at various stages of growing up. Given the timeline, it had to be Cassidy and Alpha Kieran's late son.I continued to the bathroom to avoid the awkwardness of Cassidy catching me staring. When I returned, she was standing in front of her open refrigerator."Apparently I forgot to feed myse
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Two hundred and thirty six
Lisa POV Alpha Kieran opened the car door even before I reached it. "What happened?" he asked. My mom's posture perked up from the passenger seat as I climbed inside.Did I even have a reasonable answer?"They didn't reject me. They didn't accept me either."A frown appeared on my mom's face, her eyes finding me through the rearview mirror. "What does that mean?""It means she's still in consideration," Kieran said, pulling out into traffic. I stared at the road, my hand moving unconsciously to my stomach."They talked about my situation like it was an allocation problem," I added quietly. "Like they're trying to decide whether I'm worth investing in.""There was an older woman who barely spoke for most of the meeting," I said later. "But when she did, it was clear she ran the place.""That's Joanna," Kieran said."You know her?""I know of her. She was a federal judge before her husband destroyed her with the Meridian. She got herself out thanks to the daughters, and she cast the
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Two hundred and thirty five
Conversations gradually thinned as late arrivals slipped into empty seats. A woman near the front rose and walked down the center aisle with a black folder pressed against her side. Someone closed the entrance doors from inside and checked the handle before taking a seat.I watched as phones disappeared into bags and coat pockets without anyone being told, and did the same. The woman at the front delivered a summary of outstanding chapter matters, followed by another woman with updates from a neighboring district. Questions came from different parts of the room, but I understood none of it. Two members even openly clashed over resource allocation, dragging several others into the argument until an older woman seated in front raised a staff, and the hall grew silent again.My eyes stayed fixed on her. Was she the leader? She was dressed in dark clothing and wore no jewelry or visible marker of authority."Enough, ladies. We've heard both positions," she said. Her voice was calm and ma
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Twenty-Five
LISA POVI was already in bed when Cameron’s footsteps reached my door.Nine o’clock exactly. He kept a schedule, and I had learned that quickly. I bathed earlier, applied the lubricant, removed my clothes, and lay back on the bed waiting.Earlier that afternoon I stood at my window and watched Evan
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Twenty-Three
CAMERON POVI returned to the hospital at four-thirty in the morning. The sky was still dark and the hallways sat nearly empty, staffed only by a handful of night-shift nurses moving quietly between rooms.I hadn’t slept. I hadn’t even tried.After leaving Lisa’s room, I went straight to mine and st
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Twenty-Two
LISA POVI lay awake staring at the ceiling, replaying last night in my head on an endless loop. The pain. The shame. The transaction notification lighting up my phone at 2:47 a.m.When Sasha’s name flashed across the screen, I almost let it ring out. She would keep calling until I answered, though,
TEMPORARY MATES, PERMANENT CRAVINGS Twenty-One
LISA POVI tried to sleep and managed an hour of restless half-consciousness before giving up. I lay in the dark staring at the ceiling, listening to the silence of the mansion and waiting for news about Evangeline. Someone should have told me something by now. Whether she was stable. Whether Camero
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