I woke up expecting to be dead.Instead, I was drowning in the scent of pine needles, rain on dry earth, and deep, strong Alpha heat.I opened my eyes, the dim morning light of the small room piercing the darkness. My body felt incredibly heavy, but the violent, shaking shivering was gone. The painful, burning heat of the mountain fever had been completely burned out of my body. There was a lingering, metallic taste on my tongue—the clear, heavy taste of pureblood Lycan blood.I shifted on the rotting straw bed. I wasn't freezing.I looked down. Wrapped tightly around my shoulders, covering me in its massive, fur-lined folds, was a heavy black velvet cloak. Pinned to the collar was the silver crest of the Blackwood Warlord.My breath caught in my throat.It wasn't a dream. The heat against my back, the blood on my lips, the voice whispering I've got you in the dark—it was real. Cillian had come down into the dirt. He had taken off his armor, bled for me, and wrapped his own royal cloa
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