Alpha’s Forbidden Mate
Finch commandeered the old billiards table for inventory, and Xander recruited every able pair of hands to reinforce the windows, which splintered and shook with every gust.
The city went dark for almost forty hours. In the blackness, Carolina learned the minor shapes of her found family by touch and sound: Lyra’s unrelenting optimism, Finch’s dry sarcasm, Briony’s surgeon’s calm, Xander’s bone-deep stubbornness, Morgan’s high-wire pulse.
Gem, she had learned, moved almost soundlessly, as if unwilling to disturb the air itself. Only at night, curled on the ancient couch with Morgan wedging a shoulder beneath hers, did she allow herself to breathe out loud.
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