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Rubbing her temples, Wren hardly spared hirin

Reaching behind her couch, he pulled pretty fabric out with a flourish Her dress

Her favorite dress

Pathetic, she stared at it, eyes wet and heart giving a single thump

He crept forward, dress in hand, until he kneeled where she sat “Keep it Caspian doesn’t need to know”

Tentative fingers stretched out to touch the coarse weave

Snatching it to her nose, Wren buried her face in sofuls of air that smelled how she had before an Alpha drenched her in his filth

“Come on” Careful of the bruises on her aret you back to bed”

Dress clutched to her chest, she stu He boreso far as to wrap an arave her no co a pillow and the only dry blanket in the puddle of cued to the corner where she plopped down and fell asleep almost instantly

Whenin the corner alone without the sound of either boy banging around in the front room

In misery

Managing repairs on the pipeworks, keeping rival factions fro with the thirsty powers-that-be tended to keep athe caa’s hovel

Toby had done ith the install; the tiny surveillance one unnoticed Every single rooles, were available Not that he’d needed to access more than two so far

His Oa had not left the corner of her roorab more of that bracken she called water

She had not taken any food Not even the shit fungus she’d tried to offer him when he’d come to call

It was starting to piss him off

He controlled ninety-percent of the water supply to the entirety of Dale City Everyone who knew his name knew not to fuck with him

If the pretender Alpha govern over them from above wanted clean drink, they had to pay If they failed to pay, he shut off the valves and let the thirsty snobs above sort out newAfter all, a human would die without water in a handful of days