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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Are you running from me?” She called after his retreating back. Laughing loudly in an exaggerated mimic of how he often laughed at her when she fled their discussions.
Halfway across the room he rounded. “Fine, Elsabet. Women do fall at my feet. They do beg for my attention. But I want the one woman in all of Ardae who isn’t falling at my feet. I do everything I can to get closer to you. Yet you won’t give me an inch. Of course, your constant anger, your fear, your endless rage cannot hurt me.”
She straightened.
“Isn’t that what you already think?” He asked a bit quieter.
She hasn’t hurt me. She’s crushed me. But those were words, power, he couldn’t give to her.
She didn’t answer. Which was answer enough for him.
Groaning in frustration he stalked from the room. But it was clear to Elsabet, and every wolf within hearing range, that she had hurt him.
Rhyers wandered down the hall. Passing her room and
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