Isla: Owned By Four Savage Alpha Brothers

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towel. Please, I'm making a mess... I'm sorry I'm shaking. Please d

ft my lips, the air in the room changed. I saw his hand

mouth. It didn't even hurt at first. It just felt hot. Then

on the floorboard. I focused on it, beca

for small things: a full stomach, a warm blanket. Sometimes

ed tired, and that was worse. "You think

heir, and what did I get? A weak, whining girl who can't even shift. Your mother ran o

d the sound

ne. He never used plain leather. It never gave h

k over. Wolfsbane stings in a way nothing else does, and I felt my wolf, the one

s satisfied. Then silence

. My back burned. I knew there

the window. Smooth. That was no accident. He never touches the places people can see. He w

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system. My muscles locked, spasming with the need to obey. I hated t

I keep your fac

I couldn

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eek. "Because... because I'm

le crossed his fa

s daughter who can't shift is worthless to a pack, but a pretty face can still close a deal. Tomorrow is your birt

ing changes. I'm an Alpha. You will live under my authority. Or I will put you out like

ammed. The

oked in the mirror. My lip was split, m

against wolfsbane, and I thought of the last time I saw my mother. I was eigh

hispered fro

ce was a mess of bruises, her wolf

go back

at me for a long, terrible moment and said

hed through the window, vanishing into the forest. I stood there

a new pack, a fresh star

n't take me. Because

more. Weakness is unforgivable in the werewol

just once, I would know I wasn't a mistake. That s

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endar. Today's date was circled in re

age for a first shift. If you haven't shifted by then,

my last

consciousness, whimpering, trying to surface, but she could

I'd be fast enough to break through the window b

to make it

made my bones lock. "GET DOWN

rs, he was waiting,

estock. "Good. You look presentable for a wolfless emb

day?" I w

you make yourself useful. The werewolves at your school come from powerful families. Be charming. Make th

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