!#13 in MysteryRomance!
'Oh, my naive little girl, you didn't think I really fell in love with you, did you?'
'What?' My stomach dropped.
He smirked and peered into his crystal glass. 'My true mate is Lilliana, the Black Moon alphas daughter.'
'But I thought we both hated her?'
He scoffed, "You did, but my passion for her grew into something else."
A slim, curvy wolf with canary blonde confidently strolled into the Alphas common room where Tony was seated and I was on my knees on the floor. "So," her voice was like caramel, "Who is this?"
"This peasant is Olivia. She just wanted me for the money. Worthless wrench." He spat my name. She sat on his lap and ran her fingers through his hair. He wrapped an arm around her waist.
"Olivia. Hmm. I don't like her. She's ugly. Such a small repulsive thing. Get her out of here."
"Of course my darling," He purred. He used to call me that. "Olivia Manix is hereby banished from the Red Moon pack. If she is ever seen again within the next 12 months that will be grounds for a whipping and expulsion, and if she is seen within the next 6 months that is grounds for a whipping followed by incarceration and possibly death penalty."
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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