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A strangled sound escaped Serena's throat, something between a squeak of outrage and a mortified gasp. She could actually feel the heat radiating from her face, certain she must be blushing a violent shade of scarlet by now that put even the deepest of roses to shame. Sweet heavens, this woman was utterly shameless!Even President Bolting seemed taken aback by Meredith's brazen words and crass insinuations. He shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot, clearing his throat in a rather obvious attempt to diffuse the awkward heat-filled tension that had descended over the group. "Surely there must be some other way," he began, "Some compromise that doesn't involve my daughter being subjected to... to...""To the beautiful, natural act of mating?" Meredith supplied helpfully, her grin widening to show a flash of teeth. "Come now, Mr. President. Surely you're not so prudish as all that. After all, how do you explain your precious child came into this world, hmm?"Across the way, Dim
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"I'll be fine, Dad," she assured him, injecting as much confidence as she could muster into her tone. "This is just...part of their customs and traditions, however bizarre or uncomfortable it might seem to us. I have to accept and embrace that if I'm truly going to take my place here."The words tasted like ashes on her tongue, a bitter reminder of all she would be leaving behind - her humanity, her identity, her entire world - in order to fully immerse herself in this new life and role. But she refused to let her doubts and misgivings show, not in that moment when so much rested on maintaining an aura of certainty and poise.President Bolting searched her face for a long moment. The worry lines around his eyes seeming to deepen as if he could sense the conflict raging beneath her calm facde.Finally, he gave a reluctant nod, reaching out to give her shoulder a reassuring squeeze."If you're sure, sweetpea," he murmured with resignation. "Just know that I'm here for you, no matter what
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Dimitri reached for the waistband of his pants with slow and deliberate movements, maintaining heated eye contact with his new mate.Serena quickly averted her gaze. She could actually feel the flush creeping down her neck and chest, her skin prickling with a heated awareness at the obscene scene.The light material pooled at his feet, leaving him as bare and unashamed as the day he was born.A strangled sound escaped Emillia’s throat before she could stop it, something between a gasp of shock and a muffled moan of pure reaction.Sweet goddess, he was...magnificent!There was no other word for it. From the column of his throat and the broad span of his shoulders down to the cut lines of his abdomen and those impossibly long legs. Every inch of him was sheer masculine perfection given form.And at the apex of those strong thighs, the thick length of his arousal jutted proudly, flushed and rigid with readiness.Emillia couldn't tear her gaze away from it, couldn't seem to draw a full bre
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The guards deposited the maid in an unceremonious heap on ground, her hair obscuring her face as she lay crumpled and unmoving.Meredith sneered down at the pathetic figure for a long moment, her expression twisted into one of utter contempt."This is what happens to those who dare defy the destiny. Who turn their backs on their sacred duties in favor of petty selfishness and greed." Her words dripped with venom."Let this be a lesson to you all," Meredith continued, her gaze sweeping over the gathered wolves with a look of pure, unadulterated loathing. "The path we walk is not an easy one, nor is it without its sacrifices. But it is sacred. Ordained by forces greater than any of us can comprehend."Then she turned her piercing stare on Serena. Her eyes bored into the younger woman with an intensity that seemed to strip away every last vestige of her defenses and false bravado."You would do well to remember that, dear. The choices laid before you are not ones to be made lightly or wit
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Both grandfather-in-law and granddaughter-in-law walked in silence for a few more moments.Enzo took a deep breath, his gaze growing distant as if looking back through the mists of time."Long ago," he began, his voice taking on a rich, storyteller's cadence that could hush even the most raucous crowd. "There was a small village tucked away in a remote corner of the world where everyone knew one another and lived in harmony with nature and the ancient ways of their ancestors."He paused for a beat, letting the imagery take shape before continuing in a low, mesmerizing timbre."Picture it, child. A cluster of simple wooden homes with thatched roofs, smoke curling lazily from stone chimneys. Fields of golden wheat swaying in the breeze, orchards heavy with fruit. The laughter of children playing in the village square, the rhythmic clang of the blacksmith's hammer, the bleating of sheep in nearby pastures. It was a simple life but a good one."Serena found herself drawn into the vivid pic
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Enzo’s tone was now laced with something she couldn’t quite place."He was an honest, noble soul who had fallen in love for the first time in his long, long existence as an immortal being. He was willing to make the woman who had so thoroughly captured his heart his absolute equal by bestowing her with that sacred piece of himself. But what he didn't realize..."The older man's expression changed to one with some deeply buried anguish."What he didn't know was that the girl's heart never truly belonged to him. That those in higher status, for all their outward gratitude and reverence, never saw him as anything more than a sacrifice - a powerful entity the heavens had sent to help cleanse their lands of the scourge that plagued it. A means to an end, nothing more. And on top of that..." His jaw clenched hard enough that the tendons stood out in stark relief along his neck and temples. "The woman had already pledged herself to the future leader of the village, having vowed to rule at his
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“NO!” Serena jolted awake with a choked gasp. Her slender frame was drenched in a cold sweat as the remnants of her vivid dream clung to her like a suffocating shroud.Tears streaked her flushed cheeks, the salty tracks still damp against her skin as she blinked rapidly in an effort to clear her blurred vision.The silk sheets tangled around her legs like a physical manifestation of the turmoil that had plagued her restless sleep.The weight of Enzo's dark revelation seemed to have followed her into the realm of slumber, tormenting her with flashes of a life she couldn't consciously remember - but one that felt achingly, undeniably familiar.She had dreamed of a love so profound, so all-consuming, that it transcended lifetimes and worlds. A bond between a fallen angel and a mere mortal woman, one of such sacred intensity that it shattered the boundaries between the divine and the damned.And yet, she had also dreamed of betraying that transcendent connection in an act of unconscionable
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Serena finally emerged from the bathroom sometime later, wrapped in a robe with her damp hair hanging in disheveled waves around her shoulders.She felt marginally refreshed and more human. The hot water had helped to clear her head somewhat, even if it couldn't fully banish the lingering shadows of her dream.She ran the hair dryer over her hair until the moisture was out. Then she went to the cavernous walk-in closet and quickly tugged on a pair of fitted black knit gown that skimmed her curves before falling to just over her knees.The v-neck was deep enough to show a hint of cleavage but modest enough to be considered casual day wear.She completed the outfit with ankle boots and a delicate silver-gold necklace with a sharp-shaped pendant she found inside her huge jewelry box.Her fingers lingered on the cool metal of the pendant for a moment, a lump forming in her throat as she thought of the man who had gotten it for her.The man who now knew the darkest, most shameful secret of
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