221: Planning a date with two brothers

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That cocky motherfucker, Lucas Shahato. How dare he?

Ever since he gave me another week’s extension to deliver Scarlett to our pack, he’s been breathing down my neck in passive aggressive ways that were driving me crazy. He had men tailing me every second of the day, so I had no choice but to keep Scarlett at arm’s length to protect her.

I knew fully well that the failsafe plan if I didn’t succeed was to ambush and kidnap her, and I worried that if she was around me as often as usual, they’d take matters into their own hands and proceed with plan B.

It sickened me to imagine the traumatic experiences she’d have to endure if she was forced to pass through a blood moon ritual, one that put her life at risk if she bled out before the ritual’s completion.

I would immediately follow her to the grave if she suffered such inhumane treatment because I lured her in with a web of lies, and for the rest of the afterlife, I’d be a slave at her mercy to earn her forgiveness.

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