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te VIP lounge slammed shut with

lloused hand clamped around the collar of my dress, shov

d mind?!" he bellowed, his vocal cords

beast. Outside, hundreds of elite guests were whispering about the Schnei

dkerchief to her eyes. "My reputation... twenty years of grooming this famil

I didn't tremble. I didn't weep. I stood in the dead center of th

otion. "You raised me like a stray dog in your servant quarters

is inner wolf strained against the surface. "We took you into the Alpha re

n she received couture for her seventeenth birthday, I was scrubbing the packhouse ken

crimson. "We hid you to protect you! You couldn't

eated me like a parasite while parading your

k the room like

mbling with the urge to snap my

strike. "Strike me, Greg. Strike me in front of the Reynolds heir. Show the world wha

st time in my existence, I saw pure, una

wing, the double

er, s

orcelain cheeks in artistic, agonizing perfection. Behind her loom

nd Greg's legs. "She's just hurting... she's sick. It's my fa

ulled Cori up against his broad chest, smoothing her hair. "Look at what she

ard. He bypassed the weeping family,

ull of lethal,

ocket and pulling out the Schneider family crest signet ring. "You think you had an engagement