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he could feel Damien's presence just on the other side of the door. Her Alpha. The man she should never have met. But it was to

to creep into her. Why had he locked her away? Was it to protect her or to control her? She

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that he was protecting her. But she wasn't a child. She had lived her life in the sha

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. She moved close

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