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hout looking back. The cool morning air on my f

my path, his face a dark cloud

ou wanted a divorce. I agr

ran a hand through his hair in frustration.

u want me to show up covered in marks, play the devoted Lu

Do not make this difficult, Kira. This is bigger than o

he is finalizing his succession will with the pack elders. Aiden Beaumont arrived in Blackwood Creek o

memory. The cold, untouchable prodigy from my

g with suppressed bitterness. "I need the Knox Pack's backing, but I cannot walk into the council as an unstable Alph

to secure political power, yet he needed me, his legal Luna, to

mbition, and once you secure the Alpha seat, you to

ed for two years. I provided you with status and comfort. If you stand by me tonight and

rything-loyalty, dignity, sa

y breath on grief or hollow questions. The man who had once

gaze at him, my chin lift

give the elders the united front you need to survive Aiden's arrival. But the second the banquet concludes, we stand be

caught off guard by m

there are boundaries dictated by blood. A true Alpha fighting for supreme command needs a fierce p

rough every word. To him, my calm detachment was merely an

epping back toward the house wit

I was resigned to being discarded

banquet would not be his coron

door firmly and let the ic

my phone and

an urgent forensic screen on the glass left in that lounge. There was a synthetic heat-

ely whose poisoned hand

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