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I walk into the bar with my pack, and I scent her straight away.
She’s lying behind the counter with blood trailing from an injury to her head. My desire to protect her stuns me almost as much as her beauty.
But it’s the smell of her blood that stuns me the most—it’s something not quite human.
When she wakes up, her fear tells me all I need to know. She definitely thinks she’s mortal.
I choose to disagree.
I make my pack watch over her while she heals, and she’s surprised I want to protect her. It’s obvious she hasn’t had good experiences with shifters in the past, but I intend to show her I’m different.
I also need time to find out the truth about her, including why she’s being hunted by our kind for reasons I’m yet to understand.
All I know is that whoever this woman really is, she’s special. And she’s mine…
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“We’re closed!” I called out, still pulling glasses out.
I could hear a multitude of boots thumping across the wood floor of the bar. I hissed a frustrated breath out through my teeth. Standing, I shouted, “I said we’re…”
I trailed off when I saw who’d come in. It was the guy from earlier in the night. The shifter. And he’d brought all his friends back. A knot of fear cinched tightly in my gut when I saw their faces. All of them, including the guy who I’d thought had been flirting with me, looked mad. Like, ready-to-destroy mad. The worst part was the fact that they were all looking at me. Like I’d made them mad.
Trying not to let my fear show, I cleared my throat. “Sorry, guys. We closed over an hour ago. If you want service, you’ll have to come back tomorrow night.”
Ignoring me, the guy I’d been talking to stepped up to the bar and slammed his palms down on it. The impact reverberated through the bar like a gunshot. “You shouldn’t even exist.”
I took an involuntary step back, shocked by the disgust in his voice. He was looking at me like I was a smear of dog poo he’d found on his shoe. What the hell had happened in the last two hours? The jovial, charming grin was gone. All I saw now was the curled lip of loathing.
He looked back at his boys. “Smell that? Was I lying?”
The rest of his friends shook their heads, one of them sniffing at the air and making a deep, throaty growl. Cold sweat slid down my back, my eyes darting around at all the other men. None of their faces showed the slightest hint of compassion. Some had even moved to the ends of the bar, cutting off any escape I might have had. My breath started to hiss in and out my nose in panicked bursts. What was about to happen to me? Robbery? Murder? Worse? A thousand nightmare scenarios flashed through my mind.
The shifter leaned forward, getting as close as the bar would allow. “Your bloodline should have been completely wiped out. The whole lineage was supposed to be dead. It looks like some of that tainted blood slipped through the cracks.”
I bumped into the shelf of liquor behind me. A bottle of tequila and a pint of whisky fell off the shelf, shattering onto the floor. The pungent aroma of alcohol burned my nose. What the hell was he talking about?
“I don’t know what you mean,” I said, my voice uncharacteristically low and quiet.
He shook his head and spat on the ground. “Doesn’t matter. You’ll be dead soon enough. Go.”
At the word, his men leaped to action. They moved so fast, I could barely register what was happening. Blurs of motion, screams and growls, the shimmering, angry flash of their red eyes. The last thing I remembered was a searing pain in my sides, followed by an explosion of pain at the back of my head. After that, everything went dark.
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ASIN : B0BH7G1ZKS
Publisher : (October 2, 2022)
Publication date : October 2, 2022
Language : English
File size : 4.0 MB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 662 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : B0C1J1MY7X
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Customers find the storyline interesting and suspenseful. They find the book enjoyable to read and appreciate the well-developed characters. However, some readers feel the pacing is slow and the book drags out too long. The conversations seem repetitive and redundant at times. There are mixed opinions on the writing quality – some find it good and well-written, while others consider it mediocre and confusing at times.
