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Earlier in the library, when I asked for a divorce, he became instantly angry. Tonight, when I rejected his touch, he sounded angry again.
Now I finally understood that he is obsessed. He can’t take a no from me. It hurts his ego, and the fact that I’m slipping from his fingers is driving him wild.
He said he would send me to hospital, I almost gave in. I am already dangling on the edge of my emotions. I need someone, anyone, to lean on. Someone to let me rest just for a second.
But the fragile charm vanished the moment his phone rang.
I glanced at the screen before he managed to hide it. Lencia.
He picked up the call, muttered a few “uh” and “mm” sounds, then hung up with a sigh heavy enough to sink his shoulders.
The moment he hung up the phone, he didn’t hesitate for even a second, his sharp tone immediately ordering me out of the car. I knew then that all my expectations had been utterly unrealistic.
Slowly, I looked outside the window and realized where we were. Near the alley. That alley. The same place where everything happened four years ago. The place where my nightmares were born. Anxiety crawled down my spine like icy water.
The road was deserted, blanketed in heavy snow. Only fools, or the unlucky, stepped out on nights like this. And my husband, my so–called devoted partner, was leaving me on the roadside because of one call from his mistress.
He even forgot he invited me to the hospital seconds ago.
I didn’t speak. I couldn’t even gather the courage to tell him I was terrified to be left alone here. That the trauma I’d spent years in therapy trying to bury might claw its way back.
I opened the door and stepped out into the cold without a word. He drove off almost immediately, speeding away, leaving me in the freezing night with my heart sinking deeper and deeper until his car disappeared completely from view.
For a long moment, I just stood there, not knowing what to do. Then I pulled out my phone to call Dove. The first call rang, but she didn’t pick up.
I exhaled shakily into the cold air and tried again. No answer. I lifted my thumb to try a third time when I heard footsteps running, coming straight from the alley.
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A chill shot through my spine. I took a step back, my heart pounding violently as fear gripped me. Who was running toward me? Who was p>
My question died when a man burst out of the darkness and into the lonely, snow–covered road. My heart nearly exploded as he stopped, glancing around frantically, searching for an escape. His gaze found me instantly.
Before I could move or breathe, he sped toward me fast, inhumanly fast, leaving only a gust of air in his wake. He was covered head–to–toe in black leather, boots crunching on the snow, his hood shadowing everything except his eyes.
He stopped right in front of me, and his bright green eyes crashed into mine in urgent frenzy. I froze. Completely.
Then, just as six security guards rushed out of the alley shouting orders, he pulled off his hood, and in the same instant, his lips crashed onto mine.
The moment his mouth touched mine, my senses shattered. Everything, the fear, the memories, the cold, vanished. His kiss stole the breath from my lungs and reached deeper… deeper than anything had ever reached inside me.
“He must have taken that way!” one of the guards barked. Footsteps thundered away into the distance. Only when the sound faded completely did the stranger release me.
He pulled back slowly, our lips parting, and it felt like waking from a dream. The illusion shattered.
All my life, I believed Ares Bani was the most handsome man I would ever meet. Until now. Until this stranger, under the swirling snow and the distant glow of holiday lights, made everything else fade.
His hair was the kind only dangerous men could pull off.
The top was long, falling in tousled, shadowy strands that brushed the sides of his face, while the sides were faded so close the black tattoos there looked as if they’d been carved straight into
his skin.
He had a sharp, beautifully carved jaw, and those green eyes, the steadiest, coldest, most unreadable eyes I.had ever seen. His emotions were sealed tight, unreachable.
We stared at each other for a single, heart–stopping second, caught in a spell neither of us could understand. Then he stepped back.
Right before my eyes, he began to shift.
Bones cracked. Skin stretched. Hair burst from every part of his body. His clothes tore apart as
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his wolf rippled through, emerging in full, breathtaking form.
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I always thought my brother Nero was the largest wolf I’d ever see base on the fact that he will be the future Alpha of Mooncrest. But I had been wrong. This wolf was different. Wild. Majestic with a single stripe on its back. Cold green eyes glowing with danger.
He looked at me one last time. And before I could blink, he galloped into the snowy night and vanished.
I stood frozen, trembling, my heart pounding out of rhythm, until suddenly my cellphone rang, yanking me back to reality.
Dove was calling.
I glanced at the screen, but then something on the snowy floor caught my eye.
Red.
Blood.
My breath caught.
That man… whoever he is…
He’s injured. Bleeding.
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Lucia Morh
Lucia Morh is a passionate storyteller who brings emotions to life through her words. When she’s not writing, she finds peace nurturing her garden.