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Paige stared into that wolf coerous But, hopefully, not as deadly as aited behind her

And if she could just get the alpha to overlook that littlefor ten years…

Then hts

Maybe

Maybe not

The olves took her into the heart of the co, three story house with heavy stone walls that stood starkly against the night

They walked into the foyer, and the tap of her boots seemed to echo on the s up a notch Normally, the vamps were the ones who liked to throw around their money

She glanced down at her scuffed boots Not that I ever had

But it looked like Drake had plenty of , fancy house This place wasn’t where she belonged, and soon enough, she’d be leaving After she took care of a little business

“This way” The olf on her right–the blond one who’d wrapped his claws around her neckto the stairs

She nodded quickly and followed hi stairs Then they hurried down a hallway Turned around a corner As they headed down that quiet hallway, Paige got a really, really bad feeling in the pit of her sto me to Drake’s office?”

The olf beside her, the dark-haired one, just grunted

That bad feeling got worse This looked like private quarters to her Like they were taking her–

A door jerked open to her left And then, right there, bigger and even sexier than she rees of the doorframe, a muscled and bare chest, a wild curl of black hair, and eyes that blazed golden fire…right there stood the olf alpha, Drake Wyler

The man she’d loved and lost before

The man she needed now

But at that moment, he stared at her with so aze burn her skin

“Paige” Her na here hadn’t been the best idea but–

His nostrils flared

Hell Her whole body tensed With olves, their sense of s that it only took one whiff to realize… “Vampire” The as a curse

She didn’t flinch Well, perhaps she did When he’d known her before, his voice had always been softened with need, with love

Not hardened with deadly rage

He grabbed her, not with his claws out, like the other olf had, but Drake wrapped his hands around her shoulders and pulled her over the threshold of the room–and into his arms