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    “Alice, love.” | lifted her chin and stared into her tearful eyes. “Go with them for now. We''ll address this after


    the ceremony. We''ll find a way...”


    Her chin quivered and she closed her eyes briefly, sending fresh streams of tears down her porcin cheeks.


    My gut twisted.


    | brushed the backs of my knuckles across one cheek, then the other, wiping her tears away.


    “It''ll be okay. | promise,” | assured her.


    | stalked back onto the stage to take my ce next to Xander. There was no way | could stand down there in


    the crowd and watch as she walked over to Gregory and Lucas.


    Especially since it was Gregory and Lucas.


    They would tear her apart.


    Alice would be their third mate.


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    Their first mate had been assigned to themst Fall and had mysteriously disappeared barely two months


    into their mating.


    While we all had our suspicions, the Elders had decided that the young Mary had simply run away as there had been no


    evidence of foul y. They never bothered to take into consideration the fact that Mary had been seen by multiple people with


    bruises on her arms.


    Last Spring, they had been assigned a she-wolf whose mates had just passed away in a car ident. Most thought it was too


    soon for her to mate someone else, but the Elders had thought it best for her to be mated right away, saying that “having a


    purpose in life would help her.”


    Shested three months before she was found dead in the woods behind Gregory and Luc a s’s cabin.


    The Elders ruled it a suicide, ming it on her depression and grief and instability.


    When Xander and | had gone to view the scene in the forest, we knew that was a lie.


    I''ll never forget the pain that remained in her lifeless eyes, and I''ll never forget the smug way Greg and Luke had just shrugged


    when we asked them what happened.


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    Xander’s low growl brought me out of my thoughts, and | refocused on the here and now.


    Lanie was standing closer to us now, staring nkly at nothing.


    tanie was


    | nced at Xander. He was intently focused on Alice, who was now standing between


    they took turns manhandling her like she was a piece of meat.


    I saw red.


    And there was nothing | could do right now.


    If we weren''t careful and we p issed off the elders, everyone in our pack would die.


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