st burst out

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g splitting open my senses, st

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feral sound-like it had final

followed it

e sh

rose garden, a woman was bent over,

her breath, gritting her teeth as if she wished

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arried the scent of

stuck to her cheek-yet she had more life in her than

t a polis

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ath st

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out to be

my m

n iron chain suppressing her instinct

, but I was consumed

in a Luna gown with a silver waistpie

se garden alone, cursing,

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I recogn

, my wolf and I fe

possessiveness surg

is m

re

saw me stop and thought

ddenly burst an

ou don't care a

even lift

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thinking sh

did

n that instant, the colo

if stating the weather, "and I'll

ed; she stumble

insane-y

aid softly.

bbed at the last

e Moon Goddess-may you never find your mate! May you b

e split

even turn

t yanked out the largest moonlight rose and was

led li

se came t

despair. She screamed and fled th

look af

y toward the

back, dusted off the dirt on her palms

w that in that mome

ed toward the front gate

think about

d already c

to fol

so thin, so vulnerable-I wante

smell

her

ng in the forest along the road, ree

my wolf ignited, its fury

to tear

d over, they had al

her skirt flipping up

herself up, only

king their teeth, laugh

e devo

tires carving a white line throug

perfectly between her and

ogues

aw the

w the M

they

collapsed strai

ecogni

t intelligence-i

arlier, four mangled corpses

the trees witho

neeling in the rain, breathing raggedly

and crouched down

ackward, slipp

ing, waitin

she gritted her teeth

p and guided h

blood, despair. and a scen

the seat, gasping,

at her so

skin-the outline of her nipples, the triangle

instantly, dragge

hard, forcing

asn't

t

coat and thr

of gen

f from staring at

, finally realizing that t

rlet, her hands grip

less, but inside, I g

she tried

ed like a gift I

lashed acr

ed, wearing nothi

born eye

pinning

ding along he

rushing aga

ned, my knuc

ut to lose contro

d arr

ried to

et and handed it to her, my voic

ll need

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uickly, without s

te to cut any

the car,

ly closed

y-fiv

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it

ly rip Marcus o

and