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“Ex-pack,” I corrected.“People who didn’t give a fuck about you.”I moved closer to her and grabbed her throat, tilting her head up so she stared up at me.“No, sweetheart.It’s because I’m not afraid to do anything for the people—for the woman—I love.”

“You don’t love me,” she said.“You don’t even know me.”

“I don’t love you now, but I will.”

She shuffled to her feet, then backed away from me and stretched out her arm toward me, holding up her hand.“N-no, you … we … you can’t love me.I’m not a monster like you.I can’t be mated to someone who kills people for fun.”

“I don’t kill people for fun,” I said.“I kill them because they don’t deserve to live.”

“I’ve heard of your plans to rule an empire of wolves,” she whispered, staring at me through large, tear-filled eyes.She wrapped her arms around herself and shook her head.“Is it true?Do you plan on eliminating everyone who stands in your path, like you did with my … my family?”

I growled at the word because that had been no family, but responded with, “Yes.”

While I had been blind with rage late last night, a different emotion that I had never felt before built higher and higher inside me.I dipped my head into the crook of her neck, breathing in the intoxicating scent of my mate.

“And I’m going to give you the fucking world,” I growled.“You’re mine.”

She sucked in a sharp breath.“Stone?—”

“Say it.”

“No.”

I drew my canines across her neck and gently pricked them into her skin, not enough to mark her yet, but enough for her to know that she was mine.That there was no escaping this.No escaping me.

“Say it,” I growled.

“N—”

“Don’t make me order you again, mate.Or I’ll drag you back up to that bedroom and show you who you belong to,” I snarled.“I’ll make youbegfor me on your knees with my cock down your pretty little throat and your eyes filled with tears.So, fucking say it.”I tightened my hand around her throat and stared down into those pretty brown eyes.“You know I will?—”

“I’m yours,” she finally breathed.

“Forever,” I growled.

CHAPTERNINE

ZURI

Stone draggedhis teeth across my neck, his warm breath giving me chills.I wasn’t supposed to like any part of this, but my wolf wanted him to touch me everywhere, like he had last night, except this time with his canines.

Heat coursed through my body, and I pressed my thighs together, biting back a moan.

Stop it, Zuri.He’s a villain.A monster.My mate.

My entire body froze, and I stared down at the bath of ashes.My mate was a pure monster who wanted nothing more than to have me bathe in the ashes of the wolves I had once thought of as family, friends, packmates.

Even if they hadn’t liked me, even if they had constantly put me down, this was wrong.

So wrong.

“No,” I growled, shoving him back.“Get away from me.You can’t mark me.Not now.”

I couldn’t be mated to this beast.The Moon Goddess must’ve made a mistake, a wrong choice.No way would I ever be able to tame him.He had brought me ashes of my ex-pack, for fuck’s sake!AndItried not to sob when someone said something mean to me.

In no world were we fated to be together!

Eyes glossy with lust, he stumbled back slightly and painted a smirk on his lips.“No?”

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