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mile disappear.

nutes. Then she spoke. "Your mother

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narrow road. "But you need

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tonight may be the only

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chill down my spine. Before I could questio

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ted him to say he'd made a mistake, that he'd come for me, that

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vered in blood - Daniel's blood. My eyes moved across the gro

rints. Wolf. But they w

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something beneath the car - a small piece of si

nce I met her. I closed my fingers aro

d. "Alpha, there'

ha

a distance. Elena, standing beside a black SUV. And someone w

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once been one of my father's most trusted advisers, and she'd been there the night my fa

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outside. There was nothing - no city, no house

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ched off the

t her. "Wh

automatically. Beyond it stood an enormous ma

ing. "I've see

ed at me. "No

hav

omething inside me stirred - a strange s

he moment he saw me, he dropped the cane in his hand,

art s

oked at him

our father never sto

breathe.

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ackward. "W

is cane. "My n

knew my

d sadly. "I

aced. "Whe

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a warning glance. Samuel sighed. "Beca

rough me. I stared at h

y ans

where beyond the trees. My wolf i

. That wasn'

me. The same black wolf from the forest. Only this time it wasn't alone.

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at him.

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hen, slowly, it shifted - bones cracking, fur disappearing, a man

ad, I saw the silver eyes

me. Then he s

inally ho