Marked, Not Kept
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Every wolf in the yard turned.
Sloane looked at her own hands, which was easier than looking at any of them, and heard herself say the most expensive sentence of her life.
"They didn't take Wilder because he marked a human," she said. "Think. They had a whole crew on a city block. Silver, dosed for an Alpha, a van, a route. That's months of work. That's money. You don't spend that on a mistake." She looked up. "You spend it on a prize. Nobody in this yard is asking the only question that matters, so I'll ask it. What is that girl actually worth, that men like this would build a machine to get her?"