His Unwanted fiancée, The Rival's Queen

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sinking into the plush charcoal carpet

ect Aether-the only document in existence that bound my adaptive yield curvature module t

modules, each one useless without the map

was unnerv

ty, yet the industrial filtration could not entirely sw

ssistant, had left his post unattended, his daily sched

rd the double mahogany

vealing a gap no wi

the wood, a sickening wave of

istakable biological signature of a high-ti

prodigy whom Celestino Middleton had appointed a

two years. The man whose company

e of the folder, crushing the heavy

avy aged brandy, thick with Alpha possessiveness, wrappin

ed in the air, fric

as phe

being presented at eighteen

quarters of the population:

and they sat at the head of near

e over five percent: exquisitel

d in a room when an Alpha s

humbed the tactile dial of my neck cuff,

at the base of my neck, cutting off my own winter-white rose scent and er

the seam of the do

saw Felisha draped across Celesti

ced slow, deliberate circles

Kayden?" Her voice was syrup and ma

waves with a tenderness I had never received in sev

ritone cutting straight through the door panel.

ion owed the woman who had built his com

tiquette the old world sti

the blood draini

ng with calculated charity. "Without her grind, Apex would not have re

, his lips brushing t

y only true equal, h

taste surged

s burned, seven years of managing his inves

kick the

shed a s

vaporated, replaced by an

s charity, then he did not dese

ned around, and walked over

r into the heavy-duty industr

teel blades chewing through three

tack of orphaned modules

own at my

at diamond engagement ring

g onto Colin's me

plastic keycaps with

walked past the mahogany doors without lookin

aling the stench of aged brandy and c