Alpha’s Forbidden Mate
“From before. You fixed my sister’s foot. They called you ‘Mother Mercy.’”
Morgan would die laughing. Carolina held the deck up, shuffled slow, let the memory move through her. “If you tell anyone that, you forfeit the next game.” The girl’s laugh was a raw, unbroken thing, and it made Carolina’s heart ache, in the way of old scars.
They played until the fires in the gym went low and the crew found her again. Xander watched from a perch on the window ledge, arms folded, eyes soft.
Morgan whistled. “We got a runner.” She set down a battered cup of hooch and raised a toast. “To the next hand.”
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