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I ran to my bedside table and reached for my phone.
I began to draft a text to Perrin, but another knock sounded at the door. I couldn’t imagine who it could possibly be and swung iit open.
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” A confetti cannon exploded in my face and a sea of balloons clouded my vision.
Ethan laughed as I stumbled backward, picking confetti out of his own hair.
“Thank you,” I laughed, trying to pop my ears from the sound of the mechanism and brushing confetti out of my eyes. “That’s one way to do a wakeup call.”
“You only turn eighteen once!” He beamed at me.
“So they tell me,&r
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PerrinOnce I was seated, I noticed that Dina had brought up the first course. I sent a mind link to my father.What is Alpha Nael doing here?We don’t know. Are you ok?I’m fine. Just overdoing it.You have five days to get it together. I watched as he looked at Alpha Nael while he spoke to me. Rest is part of that.But what is he doing here? I repeated, eager to change the topic.Salindra’s out of her mind,
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Lo I stood in the men’s room, stunned into silence. I hadn’t meant to accuse him. I hadn’t really meant to bring Jaz up at all. I looked into the mirror, at the expensive dress. I couldn’t help but think that he had barely looked at me all night. In fact, he had looked like he was happy to look anywhere but at me. I wiped my nose, blinking hard, willing my makeup not to run. What the hell had this all been about? I took a step towards the mirror, running my hands over my face, willing my heart to stop hammering. I was half convinced every heartbeat could be seen through the fabric stretched across my chest.
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Lo “Bullshit!” Jason roared from down the table. “You were planted here as a spy, weren’t you?” As if the antagonization was all Jaz--no, Jesamine, I corrected myself--needed to showcase the Alpha that lay dormant in her blood, her own eyes flash dangerously, their dark amber glowing as much as the gold in her twin’s, who had still refused to look at his mate during this whole exchange. “No!” she yelled back at Alpha Jason, unwilling to lower her tone, now raised to a dull roar. “I came here because my mother wanted out of a terrible marriage. She wanted out from a man who tortured his children and his wife for the sake of power.” At this, she glanced at her brother. His face was stone. “We escaped, but my mother was more fucked up than anybody knew at the time. From what my father did to her!” Deidre gasped, her face turning fr
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Perrin I was only one floor down from the top floor of the pack house. When I had seen enough--heard enough of her fucking deceit. Her damned betrayal. I had simply left. Out the door to the patio, using my rage of the moment to get the mere tip of a claw out to climb the side of the building towards my open window. It wasn’t my best escape plan. But there wasn’t enough room for everyone in that tiny room anymore. It was stifling. Besides; I had heard the worst. Nothing more could have changed what she was. Who she had been and what she had done. To my surprise, I was calm. Too
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