The Lycan Alpha's Forgotten Mate

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my head, and the scream died insta

low, was Dimitri Barrett. The Alpha heir. The man r

Being in the Alpha's suite was forbidden for a wolfle

d the sheet, a flash of silver caught my eye. A ring. A heavy, intricate band

reading the initials

grew heavy, suffocatingly de

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ammed into me, paralyzing my muscles. I opened my mouth to answer

g a chest sculpted by war and violence. His gaze fell on

orror. He reached out

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uched mine. It wasn't static; it was the Mate Spark. My breath hitched, and

he belonged. He looked like

voice laced with a trauma I didn'

od floor with a painful thud. Tears blurred my vision

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I snapped, sev

tine black sheets, a single, stark sm

en. I never let them close enough to trigger the memories of my moth

in my gut-not at

ivering on the floor. She wa

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yes filled with tears. "I... I

t gone. I Mind-Linked a guard. "Bring

oward her. "Put them on. If you are still here whe

ine growling in sync with my mood. The rain ha

wled, pacing in the back of m

ing wheel until the leather creaked. "She

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I saw

dress hung loosely on her small frame, soaked through by the f

in my ches

. She was wearing my ring. She carried my scent. And sh

The SUV screeched to a

car, terror washed over her face, an

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easily. She screamed-a raw, desperate sound that grated on my nerve

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he door, shivering violently,

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