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The restaurant feels like it's closing in on me.Morvena's smile is still there. That cold, cruel smile I remember from my childhood. The one she wore when she told my father I was a burden. The one she wore when she suggested he should "discipline" me more severely.My hands are shaking. My heart is pounding so hard I can barely hear anything else."Raylynn, what are you talking about?" Ivy's voice cuts through the fog. "What do you mean she was his mistress?"I can't look at her. I can't look at anyone."Raylynn!""She was his mistress," I say again, my voice flat and hollow. "She slept with my father while he was married to my mother. And she encouraged him to hurt us."Ivy's face goes pale. She looks at Morvena, her eyes wide. "Is that true?"Morvena's smile doesn't waver. "It was a long time ago. I was young. I made mistakes.""Mistakes?" I laugh, but there's no humor in it. "You ruined my family.”"I was only trying to help him." Her voice is quiet. Measured. "He was suffering.

'MINE!'My wolf's roar echoes through my skull, and I feel him surge forward, desperate to claim her.'MATE! SHE'S OUR MATE!'I can barely think. I can barely breathe. Her scent is everywhere—warm amber, soft musk, and… is that cocoa butter? What ever it is, she smells a hundred times more intoxicating than before. It wraps around me like a physical touch, and my wolf is going crazy. I want to bury my face in her neck and never come up for air.I open my mouth to speak, to say something, anything but Raylynn's eyes roll back, and she goes limp in my arms."Raylynn!" I catch her head, holding her against my chest. "Raylynn!"She doesn't respond. Her body is slack. Her breathing is shallow. And the presence of her wolf is gone. Like it was never there."Raylynn—"Heavy footsteps pound through the forest, and a huge brown wolf bursts into the clearing. It shifts in mid-stride, the fur receding and the bones cracking, and Calder appears before me, naked and breathing hard."Alpha!" He ste

I see Zephyr's face, and I see the door opening behind him, and all I can think about is protecting him from whoever is on the other side.But I'm repelled.A great force slams into me, and I'm thrown backward. I hit the ground hard, the impact rattling my bones. I scramble to my feet, my hackles raised and my teeth bared, ready to attack again.And then I see her.A woman is standing next to Zephyr. She's tall and slender, with silver-streaked hair that falls past her shoulders. Her eyes are a pale grey, almost white, and they're fixed on me with an intensity that makes my wolf want to retreat.'Irritating priestesses,' Nix growls in my head. 'Always meddling.'I can't help but be surprised by the words that come out of my wolf's mouth, but the surprise quickly fades when Zephyr's voice cuts through the tension."You speak," he says, his eyes fixed on me.'I can,' Nix responds, the words echoing in my mind and somehow audible to everyone in the room. 'When I want to.'The older woman

My office feels too big.I've been pacing for the past hour, unable to sit still, unable to focus on anything. The walls seem to close in on me, and every time I try to sit at my desk, my legs carry me back to the window, back to the door, back to pacing again.Being with Raylynn in my cabin for the last five days feels like it's messed up my sense of space. I was never this restless before. I was never this agitated. I could sit for hours and work through reports, through pack business, through everything that needed my attention. But now, all I can think about is the way she felt in my arms. The way her hair smelled. The way her voice sounded when she whispered my name in the dark of the night.My mind keeps drifting back to the cabin, to Raylynn, to the way she looked when I left this morning.She was still asleep when I slipped out, exhausted from the night, from the heat, from everything. Her hair was spread across the pillow, her lips parted, her breathing slow and even. She loo

I push the car faster, the engine roaring as I tear through the winding forest roads. Every second feels like an eternity, every mile an impossible distance. The trees blur past me, and my hands are gripping the steering wheel so tightly that my knuckles have gone white.'Faster,' my wolf growls. 'We need to get to her.''I'm going as fast as I can.''It's not fast enough.'I know. I know it's not fast enough.I see them up ahead. Calder and Peter are standing by the side of the road, talking to a woman in a white dress.Morvena.I slam on the brakes. The car screeches to a halt, and I'm out of the driver's seat before the car has fully stopped."Zephyr—" Calder starts, but I'm already moving past him.I grab Morvena by the arm, spinning her to face me. "What are you doing here?"Her smile is cold and composed, but I see the flicker of fear in her eyes. "I only came out for a run—"I catch it. A whiff of her scent. Raylynn's scent. It's on her fingers.My hand moves before I can think