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n years, it wasn't cold. It was a living, breath

warm was pressed against my back, a furnace of body heat that seeped through my thin shirt

ractically purring in the back of my mind. *Mat

intoxicating heat. A low, rumbling groan vibrated aga

e world

BANG.

the door echoe

s shrill voice pierced the sanctuary of the

dden, rigid tension. The body behind me went stiff. The peaceful silence

ing open just as the

the

, landing on the thick carpet with a thud. Scrambling to

center of the mass

Wilder.

uscles that were currently tense with rage. His hair was a chaotic mess, and his eyes

the air in the room

growl that vibrated in the floorb

en though every instinct screamed at me to run

y despite the adrenaline coursing through me. "Your sister

power so thick it tasted like metal on my tongue. He stalked toward me, invad

on't know a social climber when I see one? You snuck in her

one holding *me*, Wilder. You were the one clinging to me like

e snarled, stepping closer, "wants to rip out the throat o

my arm and throw me out, but he

orning sun sliced through the gap i

gray beneath. He stared at my eyes, his breath hitching in his throat. For a second, the rage v

he whispered, hi

pulled taut, a magnetic force urging me to touch hi

, the vulnerability was walled off

tone slamming into me like a physic

d my bag from the floor, shooting him on

yanked it open, and s

e wall with a smirk plastered on her face. She looked from m

pping with fake sympathy. "I told you, di

could feel Grayson's burning gaze on my back

my lips. I didn't look like a victim. I looked like

," I said, my voice smooth and loud en

mirk falter

w..." I tilted my head, glancing back toward the Alpha's bedroom before locking eyes with her again. "He's much

e, I heard a low, furious growl erupt from the bedroom, foll

mysterious ways," I whi

bag onto my shoulder and walked down the hall, leavi

and I had just wo