The Alpha's Blood-Bound Prisoner

d like a man

he stopped pretending they weren't. He stood in her doorway at two in the morning with blood o

d back and

o you have?

ving room, checking the window, the lock on the back

liste

was tight enough to bruise. His eyes found hers

for anyone but me. Don't answer your phone. Don't go out

e scar

led her closer

ecause she could feel the fear coming off him in waves and it

arms. Stepped bac

't undo," he sai

fore she could a

icked shut

ade down the corridor and felt the particular dread of a person who under

phone in her hand and did not call anyone because Damien had asked her

assed. Th

.m. the k

te. The sound of a fist th

e body w

e dark and pressed her ear to

and flat, stripped of anything r

id no

with weight in it. "This goes eas

le who intended for ease didn't kno

hed for

came off

d into her apartment and the air that came in with them was wrong. Cold in a way that had nothing to do with temp

a r

That was a

rossed the room without crossing it, and she hit h

look

that glowed faintly in the darkness, gold-ringed and wrong in a

were n

was flat. Final.

e said. Her voice

it with the boredom of a man reading a list he had read before.

know wher

kn

ng me make

ver her face. "You're wh

ling her apartment with their cold wrong presence. At t

for th

dn't m

ried out and the sounds of the city fell away behind her and she forced herself to breathe through

ear. The blond man.

l decide what

aid no

trembled i

low and escalating, the sound carrying warning in it, carrying grief, carrying th

had come

already too