THE ALPHA KING'S REJECTED MATE (TO BE OR NOT TO BE)

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hat again

out before I

e hall fe

. Silver banners fluttered from the great pillars, and the crescen

was imprinted

Black

lpha

ma

aller in his ceremonial dark clothes

yes l

at of rec

something

ndilute

away. A mask of indiffer

t you as

murmur of shock swe

n my chest intensified with every beat of my heart -

it was supposed

hirled past my eyes, m

ceptance. Not this - not the sneering dis

I

't even really kno

ne's name slithered

a V

ten filial stray. The nobody who had risen high enough t

ok as I drop

it ha

dant hanging from

, and I absently traced i

her's

ft me before vanishin

went

the first time since our eyes met, h

ou

t seem to

ha

thing else, something deeper in my gut that had

a rasp. A king's command tangled up with something else

ingers around

my mot

across his face so fast I co

was he

ha

The tremor in his voi

allo

la

ackward as if I

was he

you ask?

ar

practically r

it matter

at something on

body had g

ar

right

t respond. N

said abruptly. "Y

stepped forward

d his

kne

use

ew her." I too

w stop holding your breath, Damian,

th stretched into

drained fr

o

ould

st call me.

closed i

is about yo

s my face. I blinked rapidly, pushin

his is, but it makes

ds, a sharp pang o

gainst my chest, and D

a

ned hi

dy igniting beneath my touch, and a si

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