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nd pine swallowed everything. I stood in the doorway, staring at

came down the

parents. Aristocrats who'd traded their dign

epped out of my dressing room, tie loosened. "We heard you're staying in the ea

is fine," J

this is improper. Jameson is my Pack-appointed guardian and the executor of m

old your tongue, Daphne! If the Alpha chooses to oversee your reco

rubbing together. "The girl has an overactive imaginat

, and they still saw me as livestock-some

rking. She touched her diamond bracelet. "Do try to be

anced at t

ut," h

urmuring apologies, and scurried down the h

ck into my room an

ock c

oom s

against my shoulder blades. My hands gripped

olling the white fabric over hi

d me. "A junior designer doesn't secretly apply to a rival Pack's studio unless

d. Down my tors

my hips, turning

meson said, voice dropping to a razor whisper. "Yet there's

b. He'd been tra

ie, tires rumbled over grave

tor had