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Did I hit a nerve?

Author: Ava
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-05 21:03:42

Alaric’s POV

I should have walked away.

I should have let her go, let her drown in whatever twisted game she was playing. But I couldn’t.

Not when her scent wrapped around me like a vice, not when her voice slithered into my veins, poisoning every rational thought I had left.

She was my mate.

And she was ruining me.

Her fingers skimmed over my collar, teasing, taunting. Her lips hovered just inches from mine, and my wolf howled in frustration, demanding that I close the distance.

"Maybe you should stop resisting, then," she whispered.

Fuck.

I clenched my jaw, every muscle in my body screaming for restraint. But there was nothing left. She had stripped me bare, torn through every wall I’d built between us.

"You think this is a game, don’t you?" I growled, my grip tightening around her arms.

She only smiled, slow and dangerous. "Isn’t it?"

That was it.

That was my breaking point.

I yanked her flush against me, crushing my lips to hers in a brutal, punishing ki
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