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Adrian’s POV: I drove the car with one hand on the wheel and the other resting on my lap, feeling the weight of the day settle into my bones. Beside me, Victoria was leaning against the window, her breath fogging up the glass as she watched the neon lights of the city flicker by. I had just picked her up from the hair salon where she worked. She looked good, her hair all done up, but I was mostly just thinking about getting home and having a hot meal. When we finally pulled into the driveway and walked up to the front porch, I reached out to press the doorbell. It was a habit, I guess. A way to let the house know I was back. "Don't do that," Victoria said, her voice sharp enough to cut through my thoughts. She slapped my hand away from the ringer. "Is it every time I’m going to be telling the wife to open the door for you when you literally have the password? It’s your house, Adrian. Act like it." I turned to her, feeling a bit annoyed. "Don't act as if you care about her feeli

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Adrian’s pov "I don’t really care," I lied. "You are here with me, so why would I be looking for her first thing in the morning?" Victoria sat up, her face getting serious for the first time. "This is getting serious, Adrian. In a few hours’ time now, our superior is going to call ... she’s going to ask us about how everything is going with the plan. What are we going to tell her if Harriet is gone?" I paced a small circle in the kitchen. "We need to... we’ll just lie to our superior that everything is going well. Besides, the boss isn't here to know what’s happening. She doesn't know if Harriet is still here or if she has disappeared into thin air." "Well, you’re right," Victoria said, leaning back again. "But for now, keep trying to call her number. We need her here." I waited five minutes. It felt like five hours. I dialed again. The number you're trying to call is not available at the moment. "I’m hungry," Victoria complained from the other room. "It’s like a baby w

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Victoria’s POVI climbed onto him the second the phone left his hand. The message was already sent. Harriet’s phone was still in the drawer downstairs where I had left it after I made her disappear. One week. That was all the time I needed. One week of him buried inside me and he would stop dialing that number like a lost dog.I settled over his hips and reached down, guiding him. The thick head of his cock pressed against me and I pushed down in one slow, deliberate slide until he was fully inside. My eyes fluttered shut for half a second at the stretch. God, he filled me so completely it almost hurt. I loved that it almost hurt.“Fuck… yes,” I breathed, rolling my hips once, twice, seating him deeper. “That’s it, baby. Right there.”He was still half in his head, still thinking about her. I could feel it in the way his hands stayed loose on my waist instead of gripping hard. I leaned forward, pressing my full breasts against his chest, pregnant belly heavy between us, and started mo

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Harriet Zion had already told me that dinner would be at the pack house, where everyone usually gathered. By the time I walked into the dining area, my hands were sweating and I was playing with my fingers to keep them from shaking. I had already met Phina, Jian, Lara, and little Ginger. I had seen some of the pack members training in the yard and watched a few shift into wolves earlier in the day. But actually sitting down to eat a meal with all of them was completely different. Nobody really noticed me when I walked in. There was one long wooden table stretching across the middle of the room, with no separate tables or private corners to hide in. I hurried over to the second side and pulled out the chair right beside Zion. I sat down and looked around. Some of the people at the table had deep marks and dark scars across their arms and necks. Others were sitting close to their mates, talking, laughing, and touching each other without even thinking about it. A few just ate qui

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HarrietI shook my head. "I don't know anything about that. Zion only recently started teaching me about the pack laws and how everything works around here."Lara nodded slowly, her face turning a bit serious. "The council will need to approve the mating since you are human."Before I could ask what she meant by the council, Jian looked across the table at Zion. "The council is already asking questions, Alpha. You know they will want to meet Harriet before this turns into anything official."Zion leaned back in his heavy chair, resting one arm over the top of it. "I know."Jian gave him a firm, knowing look. "They will want to know what you are planning for the pack before they recognize her as Luna."I looked back and forth between the two men. So this was another huge part of the pack that Zion had not mentioned yet. A group of old wolves who had to judge me before I could truly belong.Lara gently touched my arm to get my attention. "Jian told me about the council meeting earlier t

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HarrietMy hand wouldn’t stop shaking.I stared at the phone until the screen dimmed on its own, my thumb still hovering over Haley’s name like touching it again might make this less real. My pulse was loud in my own ears, louder than the clatter of plates being cleared around me, louder than Jian’s voice still going on about council schedules like the world hadn’t just tilted sideways.Less than three weeks.I set the phone face-down on the table, too fast. The sound of it hitting wood was small, but it cut straight through whatever Zion had been saying.He stopped mid-sentence.I didn’t look up. I didn’t have to. I felt him look at me the way he always did now, like he was listening to something underneath my skin instead of my face.“Harriet.”Just my name. Nothing else.“I’m fine,” I said, too quickly, reaching for my water glass so my hands would have somewhere to be.“Your heart is doing something it doesn’t do when you’re fine.”I hated that. I hated that there was no version o

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HarrietI had lied.I was not okay, I was not ready, and I was definitely not as confident as I had sounded when I told Zion I was going to walk into that council room and win. I had only said it because I needed to hear myself say it out loud. Maybe if I sounded certain enough, I would eventually start believing it.Sitting there at the long wooden table, with my phone sitting cold beside my plate, the heavy thought of the upcoming council meeting hung over me. Everything I had been trying so hard to push down came rising right back to the surface.I was scared.I could not show it, though. Not here. Everyone in this pack could smell fear on a person the moment it hit their blood—I had already learned that much about wolves.I glanced sideways at the man sitting beside me. He was tall, with broad shoulders and glowing blue eyes that seemed to look right through me. The Alpha. I quickly looked away, staring down at my hands.I needed to calm down. I needed to relax my body. If I kept

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