tte

vy, strained with a cle

n overwhelming stench of m

ver my mouth and nose wa

s instinct

wounded, my initial thra

an turned to lock the stall door, only t

under hi

go?" a rough voice ba

ucked into the restro

oom! When I find him, I'm breaking his legs with

heavily against

e was deathly pale, the entire left sleeve

fell on

ngly familiar about those

I had seen them

mped into the w

king the stall doo

s courage born from having my heart shattered tonight-but I grabbed the man

cooperate if y

tion, I swiftly unbuckled his belt, yanked his expensive tailored t

the buttons of his

tle of highly concentrated medical rubbing alcohol from my bag-a habit I kept fo

ga scent, mixing with the alcohol to create a heavy, intoxicati

all was yanked open, I mad

head, tossing it aside, leav

d the stranger's face and s

ed for a fracti

inctual, primal r

e waist, pulling me flush aga

the moment our lips met, sendin

-up into a deep, dominating

rd the intruder, screaming with feigned rage, "What

ictable creatures drive

s discarded on the floor, the rogue's aggressiv

t out a lo

he stall," the rogue yelled back to his partner

ad drained every oun

ghtly gripping the stranger's bloody

e show and keep looking!" the v

retreated, and the res

nto complete, dead silence that

wall and quickly pull

nt down, pulled up his trous

collar, prepar

him back, and pointed at th

e flash of surprise in

my stern, clinical voice, "If I were someone w

s in my hand, then at the lingeri

hosted over his lips, a

wound on his arm were black

and wol

ful Alpha like hi

t above the wound, and then used a pen

his every forty minutes for about five minutes to let the blood flow

tepped back, I realized he ha

were sharply defined, his broad, hard chest rising

, jagged scar on his shoulder that

fully healed, but i

tless life-and

several lighter scars c

ll my gaze away,

his blood-stained fingers to selectively fasten just

rabbed my hand just as I w

asped, looking up into hi

m felt

al object was pre

ith calluses, gently fol

shed over me as he leaned in, his voice a low,

... until we

oor, and walked out into the shadow