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Chapter 48 - The war begins.
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VenusThe boy named Hunter tilted his head to one side looking amused but at the same time confused. Okay, fine, so he wasn’t a boy, but it was the only way Venus could bring herself to think about without THINKING about him! Was this how the wolves felt when they met their mates? All hot and bothered? Hell! She didn’t even know how demi-goddesses were meant to feel when they meet the love of their life!“Venus,” His voice was so damn smooth that she had to clench her legs together tightly to keep her arousal in check! She knew that wolves were able to smell it and she wasn’t about to give away the fact that she found him incredibly irresistible! “I don’t want anything from you.” He took a couple of steps closer and she sat down to put the table between them, making him smile as he leaned against the counter. He studied her for a moment while crossing his arms over his chest. “I want to be with the woman the moon goddess chose for me to be with. You.” He looked at the door as if heari
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GabriellaThe second cup of tea smelled strongly of peppermint and Gabriella enjoyed it even more than the first. She was feeling groggy and the last thing she remembered was Lucienne pulling the covers over her as if tucking her in. The angel explained to Lucienne that the second cup of tea had something in it to knock Gabriella out so she wouldn’t remember the pain she was about to go through. They had to extract the darkness from her wound and he suggested to Lucienne that he shouldn’t hang around for it, but Lucienne refused to leave her side.There was a huge possibility that Gabriella wouldn’t survive the procedure and he didn’t want to leave her alone if that happened. If his mate breathed her last breath, he wanted to be right there by her side. The angel nodded as more angels entered the room. One was carrying a large ancient book. One had a golden bowl and the last was carrying a strange glass bottle.Lucienne moved out of the way and watched as they removed the covers from
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GabriellaAs she slowly opened her eyes, she groaned. It felt as if she had been through the toughest training session of her entire life. Every muscle was acing down to the bone and Gabriella’s first though was that it didn’t work! Whatever the angels did … It didn’t work! Lucienne rushed to her side the moment he realized she was awake and he smiled at her.“Don’t!” She tried to sit up and he helped her.“Don’t what?” He looked confused as she sighed.“Just don’t tell me. I don’t want to hear that it didn’t work and that you don’t want me to go after the Wolf King.” She couldn’t look at him. She had failed her people and she was going to die …“Hey.” His voice was soft and his touch even softer as he turned her face so she would look at him. “It worked!” His voice was filled with excitement as he started to unbutton the side of her gown. Gabriella looked at her perfectly healed skin where there used to be a gaping black hole!“It worked!” She squealed and was about to jump him when
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