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Chapter 33

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~King~

I push through the brush, determined to deal with this quickly so I can get back to Katarina. I don’t know where her boldness comes from, but I don’t like it. I need to get her to remember how things should be. The wedding is coming up quickly, and I need everything in place before that.

I’m trying to figure out how to keep Aston away from my girl. Obviously, I can’t do anything in actuality since he just got back. Everyone would be aware if anything were to happen to him, so that wouldn’t work. It isn’t that I plan to do anything to him; I’m just going through all possibilities.

It isn’t that I don’t trust Katarina because I do. She’s always been trustworthy, no matter how many men eye her throughout the day. It’s the fact that Aston and Katarina have history, and I don’t want that history to repeat itself. I know he was mated to her in the past, but I have to believe that connection is no more. He hasn’t claimed her, so I don’t think there’s anything to worry about. Still, on
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