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no, I'm not hiding. I'm staging a tactic

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to speaker and toss

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ressed. "Did your wolves recogniz

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uttered. "Akira was

olde breathed. "You nee

my parents trying to auction me off to the next

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ved I worked as a bar

ome full-time-a perfect little Luna with no ambiti

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as an IRS agent with a warrant-nerv

all you..." He stared at the floor as if it might open

istled. "E

t want to, but..." He finally looked up, his eye

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nny. Not the Alpha K

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ng stupid,like shift right there and tea

job. Being a barist

no one in my pack knew except Y

average.Ordinary. Unexceptional. Every time I tried

hide. I buried my ambit

re about losing th

was clearly a power move. My fa

rrangement that would have bound our packs. But Beatrice had already taken

away from the pack's plans. I can destroy any indep

ng back, belly-up like I used to,

go howl a

s obedient

ying the good

shoved open the front

g myself through the pack

start round two of

stead was somet

lood-red wine worth more than my rent, laughing

y'd stepped right out of How to Hos

950s mogul,maybe one who'd spent time in prison for stea

h of chest hair that looked like someone had just trimmed th

oo white, his sm

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silver bulle

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her hiding m

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ically licki

olf howling mating

t threat tone, "don't be rude. Show

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, high and brittle, lik

ays, aren't they?" she said to Leonard, with t

like a female with spirit.Make

don't use silver bullets. W

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hen I un

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meeting a 'promi

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ally left,I turn

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er wine glass, too

aid, "was you