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Author: Cate Jasmine
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The rushing in my head is clearing shit up. I’m in the wrong place.

“You don’t see a problem?” Fraser points in the direction of the alpha’s compound, arm straight out like a scarecrow. “They’re laughing at you. This is a joke.”

I don’t bare my fangs. I let them dig into the inside of my lower lip.

“You know this is a non-starter.” Fraser swings his arm to point his finger at me. “Wallace told us what you said to her. You told that dirty bitch to wash herself, and maybe you’d let her ride your cock.”

Everyone around the table snickers, except for Trevor, who won’t look up from his empty plate. A stone forms in the pit of my stomach.

I did say that. Everything was veiled in a haze of red, and with the one brain cell I still had working, I was counting the Blackburns, and how they outnumbered us two to one. Even if the McKays and Sinclairs threw in with us, they wouldn’t be worth much after a day of drinking.

Everyone was crowded around Flora, and she can’t fight. When we were pups, the
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