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Alana POV

“Well! Well!! Well!!! If it isn’t the bitch that just returned from the land of the dead?” He started, his eyes berating me from the crown of my head and down to my toe. “It’s quite a pleasure to find you here”

“I wish I can say the pleasure is also mine, Gaby boy” my voice taunting and almost degrading. At my word, his smile twisted into an angry snarl as he charged toward me with clenched fist.

I watched with eyes narrowed into slit as Gabriel slowly approaches, each step, that of a predator closing in on his scared little prey. His dark and unwanted presence sending red warning flags down my whole being.

My heart raced with adrenaline rushing through me. My fingers trembled with anticipation as I discreetly reached under the folds of my gown for the comforting weight of my hidden dagger. The last time I had crossed paths with Gabriel, it had nearly cost me my life.

But fate had allowed oceanic wolf to cross path with me, saving me and now, here we were, standing in t