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y," I sai

ctly as calmly as the first time. As

just came out, high and shaky. "

with me. He di

augh

I'm not asking you to take responsibility for anythin

ned back against the front of it with his arms folded. Close enough that his s

ft

Shaw has wanted my seat since before I could walk. On the night of the Blood Moon, the Council will meet to confirm me as Alpha of Si

iving above the clouds, untouchable. It had never occurr

o take a mate for three years," he w

d. "There have to be a hundred s

head. "That makes me a liar and a cheat. My uncle would eat me alive. But if I marry the girl in the p

id it made my

he world who can make that

im at all, honestly. I'd been so busy panicking about my own

ess," I sa

kno

aura." I gestured weakly at the door, at the elevator, at that moment this morning when everyone else

d, "is my prob

em when they start t

ace, gone before I could read it. "

t back to his chair. When he s

k events, a few galas. After one year, you can file for dissolution. The choice

th fel

llion d

had three hundred and twelve dollars in my checking ac

f I sa

y. "Your job is safe. I'm not going to r

had every chance to throw me out of this building toda

to think

it but his name and a phone number, embossed in silver. "That's my priv

is. A spark jumped between us,

inch. He jus

ht, Miss

lished smile. I rode it down forty-two floors holdin

my life had be

e entirely, and I didn't

lked the fourteen blocks with the card in my poc

en I was two block

wn nu

no text. J

my heels dangling from my fingers, looking back ov

me in while I was s

e if the whole pack saw this before the

ed with a s