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2024-10-29 19:42:56Edric's POV:
“Marcus Brown, you stand accused of launching an unprovoked attack on the Luna of Mountain Fire. What say you?”
“I’m innocent, your majesty,” Marcus replies.
What? He admitted it to me. I ball my fists in my lap, trying my best not to speak out of turn.
“Motivate your claims of innocence.”
“At the time of the attack, Maya was not yet the Luna for Mountain Fire, and Edric had not yet marked her, so she wasn’t officially his mate. In fact, she did not even belong to the pack. She was still a rogue.”
Dammit, the fucker found a loophole.
The king nods and turns to me. “Alpha Edric Payne, is this true?”
I stand. “Yes, your majesty. It wasn’t official yet, but the pack had accepted her, and she already started performing her duties as Luna when it happened.”
“But everyone did technically consider her a rogue.”
“No, your majesty, a day after she arrived, she lost her rogue sc
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It’s like I’m standing outside myself. Watching, hearing, feeling and seeing everything my wolf does. I have no control over myself and my body anymore. It was already too late when Edric brought me inside -- by then she had taken control because she sensed my hesitation. Edric tries to pull away from me, but she growls a low warning and grips his hair, roughly pulling him back to her, folding her lips around his mouth. The kiss steals the breath from my body and drives me insane with dark, needy lust. I want to stop fighting it, want to stop overthinking every little thing, I want to stop fighting my wolf and just let it happen. I want to find my mate again and be with him like we used to be when we found each other. Edric picks me up, and I wrap my legs around him. He carries me across the room, slamming me against the wall so hard that my head connects to it with a jarring thud. It doesn’t even slow my wolf down. Her claws surface and she rips his shirt to ribbons. I’m terrified
