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I had thought I had laid my cards on the table, but Elwood’s face remained a mask of bureaucratic iron.

"Dr. Mercer, we understand your family strain," he said, his voice dripping with a false, practiced sympathy. "But the scrolls have been signed and the roster is already reported to the High Council. If we strike a name now, it creates a void in the formation. It will be seen as a mark against your residency, and quite frankly, it could end your career at Pacific Heights before it begins."

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  • Violet CLAW   59

    I refused to give Sara and Jane the dark satisfaction of seeing me crumble. I forced a sharp, feline smile onto my face and tilted my head."Perhaps that is true, Mrs. Yoris. It seems the Great Spirit compensated for my lack of motherly affection by giving me a much more... visceral magnetism.""You think a man’s hunger for your skin is the same as a soul-bond? What a pathetic delusion!" Sara hissed, her Zurich refinement cracking. "A man’s heart and his heat are separate chambers. The more an Alpha cherishes his true mate, the less he wants to see her tainted by the rougher parts of the world. He saves his cheap thrills for the strays that are easily caught."She was trying to humiliate me, to cast me as a disposable toy compared to Jane’s "purity." I just leaned in, my voice a dangerous silk."Is that how it works? Then I suppose Mr. William Yoris must cherish you beyond measure, right? Since he so rarely seems to... indulge."I’d seen them at the Ryder Global functions; they were l

  • Violet CLAW   58

    Cole didn’t wait for an invitation. He surged forward, his presence a tidal wave that forced Noah to take a frantic step back. With one fluid, possessive motion, Cole hauled me into the iron heat of his chest."Ivy is hammered, Cole," Noah said, his voice straining to find its footing against the High Alpha’s aura. "I’ll get her to her door. There’s no need for you to trouble yourself."I blinked up at the blurred, beautiful face of the man holding me. My filter had dissolved in a puddle of mountain-ale. "Why are you standing there like a gargoyle?" I slurred, poking a finger into Cole’s hard chest. "Stop lurking and hug me properly!"Noah’s face went pale. In the Ryder Pack, no one—not even the Elders—spoke to the High Alpha with such reckless command. Cole was the law, the judge, and the executioner. Noah scrambled to cover for me. "Ivy, stop. You’re out of your mind. That’s Alpha Ryder, don't say another word..."But to Noah’s absolute shock, Cole didn't snarl. He didn't exile me.

  • Violet CLAW   57

    But Cole immediately shattered any illusions of a fair split, his predatory nature surfacing with a cold smirk."I'm taking eighty percent," he stated flatly. "And since the initial transaction was conducted behind my back, your remaining twenty belongs to me as a 'distress tax' for the mental strain of finding out my woman is selling me off.""I object!"I practically snarled the words. This was my windfall, my golden parachute. Why should the High Alpha of Ryder Global get to strip me of it? Besides, the thought of what Diane would do if she found out I’d taken the gold without leaving the city made my skin crawl.But Cole’s voice was like a plunge into a frozen lake. "Your objection is noted and overruled. I’ll have a Beta team sweep the apartment and secure the assets within the hour."He turned and strode toward the master suite, unmasking the raw, muscular lines of his throat as he unbuttoned his collar. I stood there, speechless. I had never heard someone describe a daylight ro

  • Violet CLAW   56

    It wasn't long before Noah Pierce dropped the second hammer."After Diane Ryder left your girl's apartment, she started making massive withdrawals. Gold bullion. Every bar she could get her hands on from the central vaults.""Gold?" I watched Cole’s brow furrow. He didn’t like being kept in the dark, especially by his own blood.That evening, Cole showed up at my door with the same territorial stride as always. I was hunched over my workbench, apron stained with sawdust, completely lost in the rhythm of my chisel. He didn't say a word—just shucked off his silk tie, tossed it toward the leather sofa, and wrapped his arms around me from behind, his heat bleeding through my clothes."Don't," I snapped, not breaking my focus. "This is for the Winter Solstice Exhibition. I can’t mess up the grain.""The Great Hunt carving competition?" He didn't pull away, despite my slap to his hand. He just leaned against the bench, watching me work. "The one they only hold every five years?""My mentor,

  • Violet CLAW   55

    "You forget your place, Diane," I said, my voice cutting through the tension of the hallway. "I recall my father mentioning that you aren't even a true blood member of the Ryder line. If you were, perhaps the High Alpha would actually listen to you instead of constantly overstepping you to side with me."It was a low blow, but she had drawn first blood. Diane wasn't a biological Ryder; she was the daughter of an old family friend, adopted by the previous patriarch after her parents perished in a border skirmish. It was a tragic history, and normally, I would never weaponize someone’s grief, but she had walked into my home and called me a stray.The reminder hit its mark. Diane’s face contorted as she remembered every time Cole had brushed her concerns aside or favored my medical expertise over her traditionalist demands. Before, she might have dismissed it as his pity for a fallen house. Now, looking at the marks on my skin, she realized it was far more dangerous. If I climbed from th

  • Violet CLAW   54

    As I prepared to leave the room, Elaine was still spiraling into her endless, fawning chatter."Elder Yoris, please," my mother pleaded, her voice thin and desperate. "If your schedule allows, could you visit me again soon? I find our talks so... enlightening."Jane looked at Elaine, her eyes tracking the older woman’s hunger for approval. I could see the gears turning in Jane's head—wondering if my mother and I had conspired to trap her here in this smelling ward just to irritate her. But she was a politician of the pack; she kept her snarl hidden behind a practiced, porcelain smile."Of course, Elaine. I’ll make time.""Wonderful. Truly, thank you, Jane."My mother beamed like a pup receiving a scrap of prime kill. She didn't notice the way Jane’s heels clicked sharply against the linoleum as she fled the room without a backward glance."Mom, Jane Yoris isn't the saint you’ve built her up to be," I said the moment the door hissed shut. "You don't need to grovel. If you’re lonely, I’

  • Violet CLAW   49

    I obeyed the commands of the loudspeaker and retreated to a safe distance, but my feet felt like they were rooted in the sludge. I couldn't look away from the breach.Only the head nurse’s frantic grip on my arm saved me from being buried as a secondary slide hissed down. She dragged me back just i

  • Violet CLAW   47

    As a trauma surgeon, I knew precisely how much an twelve-hour shift in the theater drained the marrow from your bones."Go on up," Tyler said, his gaze lingering on me from the driver's seat of his Porsche. "I’m staying until I see your lights go on."He’d intended this weekend at the springs to be

  • Violet CLAW   46

    Mason Clark wasn't one for subtlety. He pulled the woman at his side into a bruising, performative kiss as if he had something to prove to the rest of the pack.One of the younger Alphas leaned back, a wicked grin spreading across his face. "Mason, I’m starting to think you were the one responsible

  • Violet CLAW   45

    I could see the faint muscle in Cole’s jaw twitching as he licked the inside of his cheek, a dark, playful glint in his eyes that only I seemed to catch.Jane, sensing the atmosphere thickening into something she couldn't control, suddenly spoke up, but Cole cut through the noise. "Why are you all

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