"God, you're so frustrating!" He paced back and forth, pulling at his hair.
"Why can't you for once act like an adult and go back to your mate?" Although he said this to me, I knew he didn't actually want it. He was in front of me in a second, looking down at me with those stormy gray eyes.
"I can tell you why, my love. You are a coward." I was pressed against the wall, trapped by his arms that were on the side of my face. The air seemed to thicken and I found it hard to breathe. I couldn't ignore the attraction I had for him, and neither can he.
"Well, at least I didn't kill my mate." I held his eyes while I said this. Anger flashed for a second, but was quickly overtaken by lust.
"You are just halfway there from doing the same thing love" Then his lips were on mine.
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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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