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16: He's still your mate

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Natasha's POV

The slap echoed in my ears long after the sound faded.

I didn’t move. I couldn’t. My body was still frozen from the moment he stepped in front of me, from the way his voice had cracked through the air like thunder, from the fire in his eyes when he looked at Ashley.

And then, the way he looked at me.

Like I was worth something.

Like I wasn’t just some girl in borrowed clothes standing in a hallway too grand for her shadow.

For a second, something bloomed in my chest. I didn’t name it. Didn’t dare. But it was there. Quiet and warm. The feeling that maybe I wasn’t as invisible as I’d thought. Important maybe.

"Come with me!"

His voice pulled me back, sharp again. Still full of that same heat, but not the soft kind. Not the one I wanted to feel.

I followed.

His grip wasn’t tight, but it wasn’t gentle either. He didn’t look back once. Just stormed ahead, dragging me down two corridors and through a door I hadn’t noticed before. A study maybe. Or a waiting room. I didn’t hav
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