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Both girls stood on either side of Jacque with their arainst Lucas

Lilly walked into the living room and took in the scene She looked at Jacque and saw the redon her arhtened in anger

"I think it’s tio now, Mr Steele," Lilly told hiaze on Lilly, who took an involuntary step back He drew in a deep breath, obviously trying to coed Fane for the bonding cere and no one will keep you from me" And with that he turned to walk out the front door

All four of theot out the door they saw Fane ju steps and land right in front of Lucas

"Oh ! Jen hollered

"I second that," Sally said

"I third it," Jacque said, eyes so wide they threatened to pop out of her head

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Fane saw Lucas lunge for Jacquelyn before she could put the wall up between their e he felt called his wolf out He was nearly coh to pull hi wolf in his bedroo like a dog with rabies The anger he was feeling was tangible; it wasit hard for him to breath

Lucas had touched hisway, and by doing so had violated the challenge rules That meant that Fane would be allowed to see Jacquelyn for the duration of the two days they had to wait until his father arrived Because he was Jacquelyn’s true e rules said he could protect her if the challenger caused physical harht was even coht see hiht in front of Lucas Steele Sometimes life just threw you a bone when you needed one

Lucas crouched low, ie"

"Sa patesti ce este al rowled

"Oh crap, he’s talking in Romanian That means he’s pissed doesn’t it? They always talk in their native tongue in theto kick somebody’s a-" Jen tried to finish, but Jacquelyn slapped her hand over Jen’s mouth and shook her head from side to side

"Let me translate for her," Sally said "Shut theup, Jen!"

"My bad," Jen whispered once Jacque had uncovered her mouth

Fane could not rery He could feel his wolf pushing to coulile provocare (you violated challenge rules)," Fane growled

He knew he needed to callanced over and saw the red marks on Jacquelyn’s arms, his on He phased in the blink of an eye and had Sorin not lunged in front of him, he would have torn Lucas Steele’s throat out