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Ace had made a wild guess in the dark but when he felt her stiffen and her heartbeat accelerate, he knew he made the correct guess. An angry haze seemed to cover his eyes and he had to suppress the urge to kill the person who had done this to her.

He knew that she had suffered at the hands of those who had kidnapped her but they had actually given her wolfsbane? At first, he had been glad that she had been strong enough to kill the rogues but now he wanted to resurrect each of them and beat them to a pulp. Holding her face, he looked deep into her eyes. Were those nightmares that he knew she had a result of the wolfsbane?

Wolfsbane was slow torture to any wolf as it slowly cut the two connected souls of human and wolf into two parts a little at a time. And she had been given enough wolfsbane that she could not change anymore. A fire ignited inside him as he felt her warm lips against his. At least she had survived. The moon Goddess had brought her to him and even if her wolf could not