The mark on my neck burned hotter with every hour that passed. By the second night after the public dinner, the bruise had darkened to a deep, proprietary purple that no scarf could fully hide from a wolf’s senses. My body remained in a constant state of low, aching heat—skin hypersensitive, nipples tight against every fabric, cunt perpetually slick and empty. I had tried to stay away from the basement. I had paced my room until the floorboards creaked, written page after page in my diary, and brought myself to shuddering peaks with Cassian’s name on my lips. None of it was enough. Sleep never came. At 1:47 a.m. I rose, dressed in nothing but a thin black slip that clung to my curves, and descended the stairs once more. The brass handle turned under my fingers with the same soft, damning click. The air inside the studio hit me like a drug—leather, electronics, and the residual scent of my Alpha stepfather wrapping around me, making my wolf writhe with need. I did not go to the chai
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