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Chapter One

“Thinking about kissing that wolf of yours?”

Stone pulled his focus away froe central monitor in his Communication Center From his command station, he turned in a slow pivot to stare down his personal assistant, Delia

“You’ve officially lost the last card in your deck And she’s not ‘ether That’s all” He tried to sound both innocent and slightly offended, despite the fact he’d been thinking about the exact shape of the wo in soon

But had he been thinking about kissing her? Hell yeah, about every other minute for the past seven weeks

Delia’s right brow rose as she lifted her head from her laptop and stared back She wasn’t inti he loved about her “Hah,” she whispered “The ht up like you’ve just discovered air”

Busted

Despite the accuracy of her observation, he lifted his chin “You don’t know anything about it”

Delia ignored this coot an idea You should take her as your date to the gala I’d like to see the two of you do one of those levitating waltzes you mastyrs are famous for”

“Not gonna happen”

He’d thought about it, though But taking a date to a forala was Delia’s idea and would be held in celebration of the Federation of the Nine Real ed

It was an aht that a federation of the real supremely independent types But the Ancient Fae hadto take over their world until the last realm-person was buried six feet under

Stone had pushed for the Federation as well as the Combined Forces of the Vaades of all the realan had aletta in the mountains of Caainst Margetta He and Ian together had organized hundreds of training sessions for the Co a real aretta when the time came

As for the gala, all the movers and shakers of each real mastyrs would also attend, each with his bonded blood rose If Stone took Aralynn as his date, the question would be raised: Was she his blood rose?

Like hell he was ready for that kind of question The blood rose pheno one mastyr vampire after another He’d escaped so far, but there’d been no indication Aralynn had blood rose ability He didn’t exactly crave her Okay, irlfriend for a while It was time he hooked up with someone for a few et involved with his battle partner

Delia, who seemed to be full of all kinds of ideas about Aralynn, pressed on “And all these unattached Guardsht want to put a wolf-ood bite at the back of the neck would help keep unwanted suitors away, if temporarily

Yup, he’d thought about biting her as well, and in more than one way He had to take a couple of deep breaths, because the thought of his fangs tapping into the woman—