ZAHRA-ROSEI lay awake two nights later.Every time I closed my eyes, something inside me forced them open again. It was a strange sensation, a restless pull beneath my skin that I couldn't name.So I gave up on sleep.I lay on my back, one arm beneath my head, staring at the ceiling.Kairo and his pack members were still here.Apparently, the morning they were supposed to leave, all their vehicles had suddenly developed problems.Every single one of them.“It’s not possible,” Maliah had said when Kairo told us.And yet, when we went to inspect the vehicles ourselves, there had been water everywhere. Somehow, the water had gotten into the engines, leaving the vehicles completely useless.Two days later, they were still here.Two days longer than I wanted them anywhere near my pack.Kairo's smug smile hadn't disappeared once.Neither had the little comments.The subtle insults.The way he kept implying that I was weak simply because I was a woman sitting on an Alpha's th
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