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“I know. I wish your father hadn’t decided to keep us apart.”I shrug. “He probably thought I would be a distraction. He never really approved of our friendship as it was.”Terrence sits down next to me on the bench, his voice heavy. “I’m sorry I let you down, Charlotte. I wanted to go become the kind of man you would be proud of. I know you didn’t want me to leave, but I needed to become strong so that I could protect you. I thought I was doing the right thing. But I guess all I did was push you into the arms of another man.”I glance at him, and my heart aches.“You were gone for a long time, Terrence,” I murmur. “I know you won’t approve because Robert is a shifter, but—”“It’s not that.” Terrence’s voice is hoarse. “I don’t care what he is. It’s that he was able to do for you what I never could. I see the confidence in you. I’ve never seen you like this before. It’s a good change. I just wish I had been the person to bring it about.” There’s a pleading look in his eyes. “Are you s

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Terrence shakes his head. “I don’t know. I was very young when my father told me about Jean and our family history. There was also a prophecy spoken by a Seer who had been close to Jean.”“A prophecy?” My ears are tingling. “What did it say?”Terrence meets my gaze. “Again, I don’t know. Sorry. It’s written down somewhere, but I’ve never seen it.”I really want to know the contents of this prophecy, mostly because I want to know whether it has something to do with why Robert and I look so much like those two war heroes.“Is there,” I begin carefully, “any mention of her mate or children?”“No.” Terrence shakes his head. “Nothing. Why are you asking all these questions, Charlotte? This doesn’t sound like simple curiosity.”“No reason.”“No.” Terrence steps toward me. “You’re hiding something from me.”When I was young, it was very easy for Terrence to get me to tell him everything. However, I’m not that easily persuaded anymore.“It really is nothing.” I give him a small smile. “I just

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“Family name?” I scoff. “My name is Beaumont, not Sanguinite. And I know you struck me from the registry. So, I don’t really understand why you’re here, since you and I are no longer related.”“I’m here because of the stories you’ve been telling Terrence.” My father takes a step toward me, menacingly. “If you wanted to survive, you should’ve kept living like a rat, out of my sight. But if you think you can stir the waters and try to steal what is rightfully your sister’s, you are a bigger fool than I thought.”“Excuse me?” His words make no sense. “I haven’t said anything to Terrence. He came looking for me. And even if I did say something, it would be the truth. I know that he wrote to me and sent me gifts; you hid the letters and gave those gifts to Arabella. The letters I wrote to him never made it to him. I don’t understand what you were trying to do by getting in the way of our friendship. And to come here now thinking I’ve said something to him? I stay away from your clan. I’ve

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“I can sense your energy again.” He looks awestruck. “How did you get so powerful?”His words barely register on me.Aim to kill.Robert’s words are at the forefront of my mind. This man has to die. He’s a threat to me and to the people I love.“None of your fucking business,” I hiss.My father’s lips purse in disapproval. “This doesn’t change anything. You are not going to be welcome in our clan. I have put in a lot of effort for Terrence and Arabella to get engaged. For the future of the clan, you cannot be allowed to live.”“Be welcome? I wouldn’t go back to that pathetic hellhole if you begged me!” My words are a vicious snarl, my body thrumming with this burning energy.“If it were only the abilities that made you lacking, it would have been different. But you were unwanted from birth.” My father snorts. “I would have killed you, but your mother begged for your life. Unremarkable. You were born unremarkable. No child of mine should have been born a healer. Weak! A disgrace! It do

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Robert MontgomeryI was very young when I lost my mother. So, I never really grieved the woman I didn’t know. I know grief, but to lose someone so close isn’t something I’ve ever experienced.Quietly, I close the door of the dimly lit bedroom, then head downstairs.It’s been two weeks since everything went down at the shelter. Charlotte hasn’t spoken a word since. She hasn’t gone to work, not that I’m worried about her being fired. Jazz has given her an indefinite leave of absence. I don’t care if Charlotte quits her job, but I know she likes that place.She’s not eating as well as she should. She barely touches her food, just wanting to sleep.I can feel this hollow grief inside me, Charlotte’s grief.I also feel the mating bond between us now, a combination of the mating mark I put on her and the blood she drank from me. It is thrumming inside me, a sentient bond that nearly knocked me into a state of unconsciousness the night Charlotte was attacked by her father.The guard I had as

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“Good job, Mano.”I guide Charlotte to the couch, where the rest of the kittens are, and watch her immerse herself in them as they clamber over each other to sniff her.“I’m glad you got out of bed,” I say, taking Charlotte’s free hand.“I wasn’t trying to worry you.” Charlotte lets one of the kittens curl up in her lap, tuckered out from all the exertion. “I just—”“You’re grieving.” I touch her face lightly, making her eyes lift toward mine. “I understand that, sweetheart. Tell me how to help. I don’t know how to fix your heart or make your pain go away.”Charlotte covers my hand with hers. “I never told you about Angie, I guess. She was wonderful to me. She’s the one who found me on the street, alone, when I was fourteen. She brought me to the women’s shelter. She let me sleep with her, comforted me. And she became a constant in my life. She wouldn’t let me take care of her, but whenever I needed someone, she was there. And now she’s gone. I have to reconcile with the fact that I w

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“Stay here?” Ricky shakes his head. “I don’t want to intrude.”“I insist.” Charlotte grabs his arm. “This is my mate’s house. You can stay here if I say you can. I’ll show you to your room.”Watching Charlotte lay claim to me so blatantly makes me smile. As I watch her walk away, I know she’s going to be okay. In the end, she just needed to take care of somebody other than herself.I let out a long breath and turn to look at Mano. She is standing beside me, stretching. “I don’t know what kind of magic you cast on her to bring her back to me, but thank you.”Mano rubs herself against my legs in response.******My meeting with Terrence, the new leader of the Neo Clan, goes about as well as it could. He’s looking into the situation with the drugs and plans to put an end to it. He’s cordial to me, but it’s obvious he’s acting this way so I don’t stop Charlotte from seeing him. However, I’m very confident in my mate’s feelings for me. She already told me about the deal she made with Terre

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Johannes looks away from the screen, and everyone is silent. He has turned the chat on mute, and somebody hands him a stack of papers. He speaks to the person for about a minute and then returns to us.“Sorry. Moving to another area isn’t as easy as it sounds. The children aren’t taking it very well. It was usually my mate who handled such matters, but she’s—” He lets out a shuddering breath. “Forgive me. What was I saying?”“The affected wolves who took the drug were being controlled by the vampires,” Adam reminds Johannes.“Yes.” He blinks as if to clear his mind. “Five packs were wiped out. None of us were expecting this. The intent of the vampires was clear: they planned to subdue us and enslave us. In their view, we had always just been animals, and they wanted to become the apex predator. The city was thriving because of the businesses we brought to it, and the vampire clan resented that. They used our own people to kill us. We had to fight back. But the only way to kill the dru

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“Don’t worry.” Terrence smiles at me suddenly. “From today on, nobody will ever treat you as less than a queen.”Before I can ask him what he means by that comment, he walks away. “Wait here. I’ll get you something to drink.”My eyes linger on his retreating figure, and I feel a sense of unease within me. Perhaps it’s the fact that I feel like a guest in my childhood home? I can’t put a finger on it, but I’m definitely uncomfortable.Taking out my phone, I try calling Robert, only to discover there’s no signal here. But then my phone vibrates, and Ricky’s name pops up in the message notifications.“No outgoing calls, but I can receive messages?” I mutter, confused. “What’s going on?”I’m about to open the message when I hear pounding footsteps, as if someone is running. My head jerks toward the main hallway, and a woman bursts out of it. The sight of her has me gaping.My sister’s flawless complexion is marred with bruises. One of her eyes is swollen shut. Her hair looks like chunks h

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“I was a child,” I whisper, my ears burning with a painful emotion. “I wasn’t a threat to you or anyone else.” I look down at my trembling sister. “Arabella isn’t lying, is she? She’s finally telling the truth. She did all those horrible things to me because Father told her to listen to you. As simple as that. After all, who could defy our father?” Meeting Terrence’s gaze, I see the utter lack of remorse, and I wet my lips. “So why did you do it?”The betrayal hurts, but not as much as it could have had Terrence managed to convince me to accept him as my mate or had he gotten to me before Robert and I ever met.“Fine.” Terrence’s eyes sharpen. “No more playing pretend, then. I knew who you were the moment I first laid eyes on you. The reincarnation of Jean Sanguinite. My family was her records keeper. My ancestor was her most trusted advisor. The Sanguinite bloodline retained my family as their advisors over the next centuries. Even when the clan decided to erase the shameful mark Jea

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