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SERAPHINA“I can’t tell him,” I said, desperately trying to hide my quivering voice. “Not now. Not while he’s just opened his eyes and the doctors are in there.”“I know,” Nadia said. “I know. Just look ahead and keep walking.”We moved down the corridor toward the exit and I kept my eyes forward the way she said, but I felt it. People turning. The kind of attention that came when someone had been recognized as the person in the photograph, the photograph that had been circulating for two hours according to Nadia, long enough to reach everyone with a phone and an internet connection.A nurse looked at me and looked away too fast.A man in the waiting area near the exit said something to the woman beside him, quiet, not quiet enough.Nadia’s hand was at my back, not pushing, just present, guiding me through the lobby and out through the doors into the cool night air.Callum was outside.He was standing beside a car that wasn’t the pack car I’d driven here, a different one, and when he

DAMIENThe east wing room was the third door on the left.I knocked once and opened it without waiting, which I had the right to do given that the council had locked her in there without it.Seraphina was sitting on the edge of the bed with her hands in her lap. She looked up when the door opened and the expression on her face when she saw it was me that moved through several things quickly before it settled.“You’re standing,” she said, her shoulders slightly slumping with relief. “I am.”“You were in a hospital bed twelve hours ago.”“I was.” I came in and closed the door behind me. “Are you alright?”“I’ve been locked in a guest room,” she said. “By elders who have no authority to lock me anywhere.” She stood up. “And you were unconscious and Shane is in a coma and Cael escaped and someone put a bomb under your car.” She looked at me. “So no. I’m not particularly alright.”“Fair,” I said.She crossed the room and stopped in front of me. She looked at my face, at the state of it, t

DAMIENHer body moved with a liquid grace, muscles still trembling from her last orgasm as she rolled onto her stomach. The moonlight caught the pale curve of her spine, each vertebra a delicate ridge I wanted to trace with my tongue. Her black hair fanned across my dark sheets like spilled ink. I positioned myself behind her, gripping her hips and pulling them up until her ass was presented to me, glistening with our combined fluids."Look at you," I growled, running my thumb through her wet folds. "So fucking perfect for me."She arched her back, pushing herself deeper into my touch. A soft whimper escaped her lips when I spread her cheeks, exposing her completely. My cock throbbed, already hard again despite having just emptied inside her. Something about her submission, the way she yielded so completely, made me insatiable.I entered her in one smooth thrust, burying myself to the hilt. Her pussy clenched around me, hot and tight and welcoming. I set a punishing rhythm, my hip

DAMIENMarcus came into my study without knocking, which told me before he said anything that he’d been building toward this since last night.“I need to talk to you,” he said.“I assumed.”He wheeled himself further into the room and stopped across the desk from me. “You said you love her.”“Yes.”“In front of the entire council.”“Yes.”He looked at me for a long moment. “I almost married her,” he said. “That’s not a small thing to just sit beside what you said last night.”“I know.”“Do you? Because you stood in that entrance hall and announced it like it was the simplest fact in the world and I’m sitting here trying to understand how my father is in love with the woman I almost made my wife.”I leaned back in the chair. “It wasn’t simple. Nothing about it has been simple.” I held his gaze. “I fought it for four years, Marcus. I told myself it was wrong every single time it surfaced and I pushed it down and I tried to be a father figure to her instead, because that was the correct