"I can't do this anymore. I'm always in danger, and I'm terrified, Brandon."
He sighs and shakes his head, looking away. "I know, and I'm doing my best to protect you. I don't want you hurt, Tammy, and I wish I could protect you better, but this is my best."
He looks defeated, and I can't help but to feel like I'm the reason for it.
"This is my fault." I whisper, shaking my head. "If I had just stayed out of the woods, I would've never met you, and none of this would be happening."
He growls and pushes me against the wall, his eyes turning black. "Don't you ever, ever say that. You're mine, Tam. And I don't ever want to hear you say those words again."
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Tammy Williams was tired of her boring, every day routine.
Being the compulsive, adventurous person she is, it just wasn't her cup of tea.
But when she meets Brandon Smith, she may have bit off more than she can chew, because all that seems to come is danger upon danger when she's with him.
Brandon Smith was soon-to-be Alpha, and like any good Alpha, he couldn't help but to yearn for his mate. But when he finds his beautiful, energetic mate, can he keep her safe? Or will all crumble in their perfect love story?
A genetically unique but emotionally lost teenager must figure out who she is within her mixed-up, warring world of Shifters and Wolfstalkers.
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It wasn't Maddie's choice to be born a half-breed, half Shifter, half Wolfstalker -- a hunter of Shifters -- and it wasn't her choice to keep her identity a secret. But after trying to attend high school like any normal sixteen-year-old, things quickly spiral south when her Stalker uncle finds out about her and catapults her out of anonymity and into the awareness--or possibly the crosshairs--of The Order of the Wolfstalker. Maddie must think fast and figure out a way to keep herself and her family safe, or risk losing everything. Including her life.
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