The Lycan's daughter: His to ruin
I was certain of that, the way you're certain of a fact rather than a feeling, and yet something in me reacted like recognition anyway, quick and traitorous, a current running under my skin before my mind had caught up to ask why.
Get it together, Vanessa.
I lifted my wine and took a slow sip, giving my hands something to do that wasn't betray me. You've had one man ruin your whole life already. You don't get to stare like a girl at her first summer solstice because a stranger has a good jaw and knows how to wear a suit.
He crossed the room, unhurried, and every Alpha near the door straightened slightly as he passed, the small automatic adjustment men make around someone whose rank they have