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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Author: Raven Sinclair
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-04-16 23:54:22

{Dominic}

I sat across from her with my chin resting on my knuckles, pretending to review the same page I’d been staring at for the last five minutes.

She was chewing on the pen again.

The truth was, I hadn’t absorbed a thing since she started mouthing the end of that pen like it owed her answers.

“Evangeline Wolfe.” God, I was a fool.

She wasn’t even trying to be seductive. Everything about her was maddeningly unintentional, and it only made things worse.

“That goddamn contract clause,” I sighed, recalling the part where she said there wouldn’t be any sexual interaction.

She didn’t want me, at least not in the way others did. There wasn’t that usual hungry-eyed obsession that most women had around Alphas like me. I mean I was Dominic Bloodhound, damn it. A name that made people tremble, and an Alpha that even the Elder council bowed to.

And yet here she was, crossing her legs on my couch, bored out of her mind, acting like I was too much to tolerate. But that was exactly why I’d p
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