I winced as he pushed me onto the bed, my heart racing in my ears.
" You need to listen to me," I scowled. How dare he tell me what to do.
"I have listened and quite frankly you never have anything nice to say," He growled at me as I said this.
"Gabriella, this is for your own good," He is ticking me off now.
"If you knew what was for my own good, you would of let me jump off that cliff,"
"Your stupid if you actually think I would've let you jump," His eyes softened and he took a few steps in my direction.
My breath caught in my throat as he grabbed my cheeks in his hands.
trying to keep my composure I muttered, "It's none of your business," His chocolate brown eyes were boring into mine.
"Gabby, you are my business,"
And with that, he pressed his lips to mine.
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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