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Chapter Fifteen - Playing A Dangerous Game
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Rose’s POV “Is your sister still a child?” The demand came out of left field and shocked me to the core. Had Lycan Adam managed to decipher the hidden meaning behind our texts? Admittedly, we hadn’t been very subtle. But why challenge me now? Had someone else seen them? I tried not to panic as I finished lacing up my corset. I was becoming adept at this ever since Jane had left mysteriously to “take care of something”. “In some ways. Why?” “Humpty Dumpty? Seriously?” “He was an old guy who brought us provisions.” “Don’t tell me, he had an egg shaped head?” “Yes, Adam.” I’d been instructed to drop the “Master” unless we were in a play situation. “Reminiscing takes her mind off our situation. Neither one of us expected to be sold by our own father.” I couldn’t emphasise that point enough. If it made him a target it was no more than he deserved. After all, overcoming him would be easy and then Lycan Adam could retrieve what he had forked out and seriously plan where to strike ne
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Rose’s POVGoddess knows why I reacted that way to what was only a light punishment, for him. I was just making matters worse both for myself and Willow. I missed her so. It was only the second time we had been separated after that worrying few weeks she spent in hospital. Turns out a simple operation to remove an appendix can have complications and it took the seven year old ages to heal.Of course, the Lycan King overcame me easily and his mocking laughter only made me feel worse. If I’d been aiming for his eye instead of allowing unbridled outrage to take over he might not have seen the funny side.What had I been thinking? Was I possessed?No, I simply resented the way he’d used me like a toy.Like a child I sulked, risking his wrath. “You provoked me.”Adam seized me by the throat. “Not cut out to be a warrior, are we? Cover yourself and shut your mouth. I don’t want another peep out of you.” He snatched up my thong. “It’s for Patrick,” he informed me. “He likes a souvenir. Somet
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