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3. Sixteen

Author: Shanika Rana
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-24 04:46:26

~ Harper’s POV ~

My eyes were still stuck on the door of my office, through which my mate had just run off. Her sweet smell of chocolates and pine still lingered in the room and I couldn't help but take a few deep breaths to calm myself.

I needed to do that because my wolf was going crazy. He was a hormonal mess right now and his colorful emotions right now were giving me a whiplash.

He had been so angry when that bloody rogue had dated to challenge us. To a human-like Zara, the air was filled with testosterone but to a wolf, the air in my office was filled with a barely contained threat, severe competitive animosity, and challenge.

By stating that I couldn't protect my mate, that filthy rogue had all but challenged my right to be Zara's mate. My wolf had fought with me to come out and put this good-for-nothing mutt in his place but I had resisted. I had planned to be calm and be in control and I had tried so very hard to be exactly that. He had tried my patience to the breaking po
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