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CHAPTER 11The kitchen felt too small after Luca walked out.Xavier's hand stayed on my lower back for one second longer than it should have — warm, heavy, deliberate — and then he pulled it away. I didn't look at him. I set my coffee cup down without drinking from it and went straight upstairs. Locked the door. Sat on the edge of the bed.And didn't move for a long time.I turned everything over until my head ached with the weight of it. Luca was a cheat. I'd watched him with my own eyes — bent some girl over the back of the couch, laughing, calling me frigid, announcing to a stranger that I was just a prop he planned to keep on a shelf after the wedding. He didn't love me. He probably never had. Whatever this engagement was, it had never been what I told myself it was.But I wasn't clean either.I had let Xavier touch me in this house. In his bed. Against his wall. I had come on his mouth while Luca slept forty feet away. I was wearing Luca's ring when Xavier pushed inside me, and I

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CHAPTER 13Luca was in a good mood.That was the thing I couldn't get used to. He moved through the house lighter than he had in weeks — phone to his ear, making calls, laughing at something someone said on the other end. Wedding logistics. Guest lists. The name of a florist his mother had used. The machinery of it had started turning and he was feeding it happily, like a man who had won something and intended to enjoy the winning.I watched him from the doorway of the study and felt the walls moving inward.I had said yes in front of Elder Maren. Pack law was now in motion. There was no graceful exit from what I had set in motion in that sitting room — just forward, and forward, and forward into a life I had chosen with my mouth while every other part of me had been screaming something different.Xavier had not been in the same room with me since he walked out.Two days of nothing. No hallway appearances. No hand at my lower back. No eyes finding mine across the kitchen. He moved thr

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