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“Not when you put it like that, not really, no,” he replied. “Sounds exciting, except for the death part.” “Doesn’t it just.”
Lol
ran the edge of my thumb along his jaw, feeling the stubble. “You need to shave.” “So do you. I’d happily do it for you,” he murmured, his deep voice vibrating in his chest.
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“That is judgmental and wildly inappropriate,” I said, though I wasn’t actually offended. I smiled against his neck. “But I am very curious.”
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Can we get moving again, please? The sooner we can switch things around the better. Hadriel didn’t fuss nearly as much.” “She likes me better,” I heard from somewhere in the throng.
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“Yeah, good idea,” someone else responded. “Go ahead and keep poking the alpha. I’ll enjoy watching him turn you inside-out.”
Must be Kurt. LOL
“I’ll take it,” Hadriel called from the back. “If she says it’s safe, I’ll take any of it. These trees are boring the balls off me.” I could just see Hadriel put out his finger to a guy on the horse somewhat beside him.
Lmao!
“No, you most certainly will not. I will prove it. There are plenty of towns we can detour into as we pass. I’ll give you a tour of the destruction your products have plagued the magical world with.”
That doesn’t prove anything though. Hasn’t he heard of “chain of evidence“? The product has been through many people after leaving her to make it to the customers. It’s weird that no one has thought of that, especially with how adamant she’s being about the fact that it doesn’t kill and is safe.
He didn’t even take off the saddle so I could ride behind him. Nope, I was back in his lap, leaning against his chest, both hands in his shirt to have skin-to-skin contact and pretending like it was a normal thing to need to touch someone so badly.
Lol
“Don’t you worry about how it looks when the alpha carries a prisoner around like this?” I asked in bewilderment. “Or rides with her like you were. Or . . .” I thought back to when he carried me through the camp, his cock stuck inside me, our activities incredibly obvious. “Or walking around in the middle of fucking?”
Just now thinking about how weird that is, huh…
“Screwing a prisoner you constantly threaten with death is a pretty immoral fucking situation.”
It really is Weston…
“You do care if I’m unhappy,” I ground out, fighting fire with fire. “You make that abundantly clear when you put in the effort to make sure I come. Repeatedly.”
Nice one, Auralie
But when it came down to it, she was right, wasn’t she? She hadn’t gotten a say in her fate—not when she was under Granny’s influence, and not now. When she tried to talk to me about her creations, I could only think of the towns and cities I’d seen destroyed, the lives I’d seen lost.
Exactly. Men don’t listen… except maybe Dante… and Hadriel.
No one else would’ve so thoroughly ignored me. She was traveling on my fucking lap, with her fingers tracing the grooves of my sides, chest and stomach, and she didn’t bother with so much as a grunt.
Lmao!
“And she also doesn’t know what’s causing that. You’re keeping important things from her, just like Granny did.”
Facts…
I found it hard to believe they’d have such amazing wine but sit down to a flavorless meal.
Why? The wine wasn’t made out in the field like the food is.
“It’s a nightmare. Cheers! Let’s get drunk, then we’ll get high, you’ll get hate-fucked, I’ll play with my ding-dong, and we’ll all have a great night for once.”
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Hadriel shoved me, looking up at all of them. “Quick, Aurelia, get your axe!”
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“An hour would be best for that meat, but it’ll be edible in a half hour,” I corrected.
Hasn’t it been an hour already?
“She requested the wine.” Hadriel pointed at me. I spit out laughter.
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“I’d rather be safe. It’s no fun to kill a pregnant woman, after all. That might be a little too gruesome, even for someone as duty-bound as you.” “Great gods, I fucking love this woman,” Hadriel said with a goofy smile. “Hits you right where it hurts.”
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It had never been clearer than when she said she wouldn’t dare have my child. That thought had me withering away. It curdled my stomach. I hadn’t even been thinking along those lines, but now that I had, this situation was ten times bleaker.
Why is he being stupid? She said she wouldn’t pass the “no magic, no wolf” on to a child, but you know damn well she has both. 🙄🙄
Her face lit up, gratitude seeping into her eyes. “You saved my lantern?” “Love,” Hadriel said, “he brought your fucking spices. Of course he brought your lantern. He probably pawed through your drawers, sniffing —“
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“It’s magic.” Aurelia winked at him before explaining how it worked.
Yeah, fairy magic, like you.
“A fairy lantern. It was a gift from Granny.”
Uh huh. Fairy… white hair streaks, attune to nature. Emberfly groupies.
Aurelia’s brow had pinched tight and then lowered, her hand tight to her chest. Her head cocked to the side and her eyes found mine. An accusation burned within them, and then slowly the power drifted away, her wolf plunged back into the abyss.
I feel like her wolf told her a few things…
You can only hope she hasn’t realized what that was.
Oh, she realized. Her wolf can talk stupid.
Does the thought of losing control scare you?” A strange tone had entered her voice, as though she were speaking about something else.
Yep. She knows. Don’t be stupid. Now you’re being obtuse.
Her wolf might’ve said something before being thrust back into the darkness, something that would clue in Aurelia to her situation.
Now you’re thinking. And you already know and stated that she’s an alpha. The others felt it as well.
“This product is dangerous to the pack,” Tanix said,
He called it product.
“Because she’s been dazzled with a true mate connection, most likely, and it hasn’t yet sunk in that we’re going to kill her—”
Oh shut up Tanix.
She grimaced again. “It’s just—this product looks a mess, doesn’t it? What we’ve seen in the market looks a lot different. Some of that is packaging, but . . . the color of it? The sizes? Those are different. So far this stuff really doesn’t seem dangerous. Their patrol ate it off the ground. The names are even all different!”
Another smart one.
“And if that animal spoke . . .” Dante quirked a brow. “You might be in for a rough ride, Alpha. She won’t be pleased if she knows what’s up.” There was no telling how she’d react. Or if she’d even figure it out. All he could do was wait and watch.
Not wait and watch, tell her the truth.
“Nonsense. You helped make it. They’re probably all wondering if you poisoned them. You’d best show them you didn’t.”
Lol. Don’t see how when she’s already been adamant that she has no cares about the drugs being dangerous.
And that something had talked. “Help me the rest of the way. I’m almost there. Don’t let that alpha call the shots and stuff me back. I can tell he’s thinking about it.”
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Give me my animal, though, and watch me run. “Let’s get you to bed, Little Wolf,” Weston whispered, his lips against the shell of my ear. Little Wolf . . .
And there it is…
“Yes, I’m sure you could get to the tent. You’d probably cover twice the distance going side-to-side, though, and you need your sleep.
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But he refused to see the truth staring him in the face.
Exactly.
It had been the rest of the pack that marveled at their presence, apparently never having seen them in the area before.
They are following you… Like dragons and everlass.
when it would be hard to find me in a bustling crowd.
No boo, your scent will not be hidden from your mate.
“Only because purple reminds me of fairies,
There it is.
another little secret he was probably keeping from me. It had to be.
Good call…
“You shouldn’t taste like candy until we’ve imprinted. But here we are . . .”
He just blabbed a little hint.
Oh, the dingy woman with the powerful mark? Yeah, I saw her run down that alleyway just there.
Lol
suppressed my magic,
He did not suppress your magic. He won’t unsuppress it, but he didn’t suppress it.
and continually dragged me toward my punishment,
It’s weird that they traveled so far in land in another country for this takedown…
It didn’t take us half as long to get to that village.
Yeah, that sounds better. This is dragging. But they are pulling supplies so…
“No, I meant—oh gods. Aurelia!”
Dang it! I bet he was about to mention the true mates bit.
“Let’s not forget, my tolerance for pain enabled me to take your knot the first time,” I seethed, wrapping a “clean” strip around it.
Why did she bring that up right there in the center of camp?
He’s been leaving a hole in his sentries every night. It leads directly to your tent. Whether he means to or if his wolf is somehow hiding that fact from him, there has always been a way out for you, and a way in for danger.
Figured when he spoke of it “not knowing” she was in the tent.
“This isn’t forever, Finley—sorry, Aurelia. How embarrassing. I just see so much of her in you. In your wilder parts, I mean. You’re a lot more balanced than a dragon.
Right! 🤣🤣🤣
