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"The triureeted with a sneer

"It isn’t often we get a lost wolf out here, little one What a treat" His voice was low and boos the size of a furnace I bet he could howl like a motherfucker in his wolf foret up there" The words could be mistaken for innuendo if not for the venom in my tone

"Girl, you are a spirited animal Do you knohat I do with animals who have too much spirit?"

I didn’t answer

"I break them"

"I have a proposition for you, Carnie"

The wolf had probably expected me to quake inAnd I remembered what Holden had said on the riverbank With wolves it all cos, pride and power Feral wolves were no different than pack wolves when it ca to make Carn fall hard

He regained his coht"

Carn began to hoith laughter "I do like a little fight in my women It isn’t fun when they just lay there"

"No, you ht…and if I win, you will give e"

He started to protest, but then gave ain "And when I win?"

"Well, then, I guess I’m all yours"

"What if I say no and take you anyway?"

"Then your men will alonder if it was because you were afraid to be beaten by a girl" It was the oldest goad of all time aside from "are you chicken?" but I crossedit was only a ?" Holden asked in a whisper so loas as though he hadn’t spoken at all

"I’ the fuck out of here"

"Secret, he’s huge"

I shushed him I knew very well that size was an illusion when it cath Sure, Carn was a mountain, and I was a mouse But I still believed I’d kick his ass into next week I had rage on my side, and he underestimated me in every way

"I don’t want to bruise you before the sex," Carn suggested, the wolves at his side snickering

"Think of it as tenderizing"

Mohawk let out a lohistle

Carn’s face twisted, exposing his true feelings abouta fool of hied in a dirt hole