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Dani woke in a room that she didn't recognize. But she knew, even before she opened her eyes, what kind of a room it was. This wasn't the first time that this had happened. The smells, the sounds, the buzz of the fluorescent lights, it was all the same. Opening her eyes she saw that the walls were painted light blue and that there was a flat screen TV on the wall, on the far side of the room. An IV was in her right arm, the one that wasn't bandaged and wrapped and she turned her head, knowing that he was there beside her. Still she was half afraid to hear what he would have to say to her.Luca was slouched over, on her right side, having fallen asleep in a recliner that was pulled up next to the side of her bed. He looked enormous, trying to sleep in the normal sized chair, and she knew that he couldn't have had a comfortable night.Shifting her weight she tried to pull herself into a sitting position, but her arm throbbed. "Fuck. Baby. Don't move. You could make it worse." In a m
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Stella nearly fell over when she stood up off of the arm of the chair. The nurse had come in and made her way over to begin redressing Dani's arm, and with her good arm Dani kept squeezing Luca's hand and giving him reassuring smiles. "He's a good guy." She whispered, when she saw his eyes narrowing in a manner that she was certain couldn't be good for Kent. "You need to give him a chance. If not for his sake, for your sister's sake. He's her mate. Nothing that happened before mattered. It didn't matter from the moment I met you and it especially doesn't matter now." Kent was clearly entirely taken with Stella. His eyes hadn't left her since he'd walked into the room. "Poor Krystal with a K. Oh wait. It's not Krystal. You brought Lani. You work fast. I swear it was Krystal just last week." She shot the words to Kent through the pack mindlink that hadn't yet been severed with the members of her old pack before continuing out loud. "Stella. I am so glad that you are his mate. You
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Dani nodded as she listened to the doctor's words before casting a worried look over at her mate. At the moment she was feeling extremely vulnerable and she hated it. She hated that her mate knew that she'd cut herself, and that it wasn't the first time. She hated that she needed help, both in having to go to the hospital and now in the form of Alpha Vos' blood. And she hated that every time she looked at Luca she felt like he saw right through the act she was putting on for the rest of the world that was supposed to show everyone that she was perfectly fine. He knew that her smiles and laughter were only skin deep. He could feel what was beneath it, through their bond and knew that inside, she felt hollow, and fragile, as if any moment she might shatter again, into a billion pieces, or be blown away by a gust of wind. Six hours later they were back at home. Dani was bundled up in the bed, practically swaddled in the enormous comforter, and Luca perched beside her on the edge of th
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Dani's voice trailed off as she realized what she'd almost said. Emery pinned a strand of dark hair neatly in place before catching her eye in the mirror. "Even though he's your brother?"Emery's voice was so soft and kind as she said the words, and her eyes were filled with such understanding that Dani's breath felt trapped in her chest for a moment."He does know?" she half whispered half choked the words out, her finger tips digging into the arms of the chair she was sitting in."Of course he does. But he was always afraid it would bring up all sorts of bad memories if he brought it up to you, so he thought that if you wanted him to know you would bring it up. I mean, I guess I really shouldn't have, but I always thought that since he's the only other family you've got other than your mom, and that basically makes us family too, that he should have taken the chance a long time ago. I mean Dani, we're practically sisters."Dani swallowed a lump that had formed in her throat and
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The ceremony was being held outside in the city's botanical gardens which Dani hadn't yet visited. This had definitely been intentional on Luca's part because he wanted her to be completely surprised when she was brought there for the ceremony when she officially became his Luna. When she left the house with Emery and the three mostly silent guards that now accompanied them everywhere, she thought that they were going to the packhouse and that the night's events would be held in a large open room where most of the pack's meetings took place. She hadn't been to a pack meeting yet, but she had walked by the room when she'd gone to Luca's office and she knew that it was large enough to hold all the people who were expected for the big event. Instead a limo pulled up in front of the house and Dani glanced at Emery, her eyebrows raised."You didn't really expect us to have to walk to your ceremony, did you?" Emery's voice held laughter as she said the words."I guess that's exactly w
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Luca felt his canines poking against his bottom lip as Dani tugged at his arm. "She can't do anything to hurt us, Love." she whispered in his ear. "I'm your mate. Your pack knows that. She's just making a fool of herself. Don't let her ruin this night for you by losing your temper." Dani was surprised by how calm she felt, staring out at the woman who had been her mate's lover for so many years. Maybe it was because she still had her emotions packed away, behind a wall where she couldn't get to them. She could feel Luca's rage, slamming against her in waves, but she knew that it wasn't her own. And so this time she welcomed the calm emptiness, which sometimes was acurse, but in times like this, felt a bit more like a blessing, and stood, watching the woman who she would hate if she could conjure the emotion, stand before her pack and address them."All of you know that I have loved Luca for all of my life. But I never meant for anything like this to happen. Especially not after h
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Dani plunged into the water of the river without thinking twice about it. She only knew that she had to get away and in that moment it seemed that she had two choices. In one scenario there was a very real possibility that she would end up back in Alpha Hardings clutches. And in the other she might find herself in a watery grave. Neither scenario was a foregone conclusion. She might survive either way. Luca and his warriors might win the battle. Maybe tomorrow morning Alpha Harding would be dead. And maybe she would let the water take her down stream and she would find herself a new life where no one had ever heard her name.But she also knew that death, in either case, was a real possibility.The cold water closed around her, and she was thankful that her dress was light, and that she'd spent every summer in her childhood swimming in the river that cut through the town that she'd grown up in. She let the current take her, but she stayed close to the side of the banks that she kne
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"Thank you." Dani was leaning back in the passenger seat of the twenty five year old Honda Civic as they pulled out of the bar parking lot. The blonde bartender was named Brandy and she'd been willing to let Dani borrow her phone, but when she heard what she needed it for she shook her head and shoved it back into her pocket. "I can take you there. But no one will be around until morning. And you probably shouldn't hang out outside around here. It's pretty remote and not really safe to do that here. There's-" Brandy's voice had trailed off and she'd glanced across the room at a pool table on the far side of the bar before shaking her head. "There's wildlife."So Dani had hung out towards the back of the bar, avoiding the pool table that she'd seen Brandy look towards, and the moment Brandy's shift was over she'd followed her out the back door and slipped into the passenger seat of her faded blue Honda Civic. "As I said earlier," Brandy said as she pulled out of the bar parking lot,
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