Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

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“Why? I am only touching what belongs to me, If I want to touch you, I will, and no one would dare to stop me, Everly. Remember that” he growls before tugging me against his chest. I push off his chest with my hand, trying to escape him.

“Valen, let me go.”

“And if I don’t want to?”

“I will make you,” I growl back at him. Though I doubted that. However, usually a knee to the balls was enough to drop any man. Even an Alpha

Valen laughs softly, his hand moving lower before he grabs my ass. I glare at him before thumping his hard chest with my fist that is clutching the coasters. He laughs, plucking them from my fingers, and his brows furrow. He reluctantly lets me go. I move to the other side, so I am out of reach. He clicks his tongue holding up a coaster, and he raises an eyebrow at me.

“What?” I ask.

“Nothing but that is the second time you have done that like you knew what I was thinking,” he says.

Nope, I just know my son, and it seems they share a few odd

—

imilarities. I shrug.

One of the kids of one of the rogues has OCD. I saw you earrange my shelf.”

Observant, but I don’t have OCD, just certain things bother

ne.”

Coasters are one of them. Your reluctance to be my mate is inother,” he then mutters something under his breath, too ow for me to hear while shaking his head. And I sigh, sipping ny soda.

His scent fills the small room, yet I find it oddly calming. However, the quiet was beginning to get awkward as we stood there staring at each other. It makes me question why ne came back here tonight. Did the bond pull him back here or was he here for more sinister reasons?

“You didn’t come here because you wanted to talk,” I state.

“Not exactly.

I raise an eyebrow at him.

hand down his face, and he

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won’t, I want to, but I won’t, not yet at least we still have time for you

let you?” I ask, horrified at the thought of

or you will force

a

father is pushing me to

words, thinking of Valarian. “If you can’t, what will he do?”

to let me mark you. I won’t

an Alpha; he can’t force you to do anything, and I won’t be forced

to my pack Everly; my father is going to announce it at the next Alpha meeting.”

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placing my empty soda

say that? What

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is that your exactly like every other Alpha, only giving a fuck about titles and pack business, thinking you can go around ordering

damn about titles; you’re a rogue. If I cared about titles, I would have rejected you by now. Most Alpha’s would have, you should

given your status.”

to your pack like I

don’t know my father, so don’t speak of him that way, he founded this city. Have you no respect? And as for an heir, that is exactly what you were created for, you were fated to me,

what cost, whose lives did he destroy to make sure he got where he is, the only thing Alphas care about is reputation and how much land they own, while the rest of us are cast away and forgotten about, thank him,

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he

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rogue, my father isn’t responsible for what other packs do, rogues make the choices that get themselves banished from

mates or pack support, have their children forced into crappy schools because they can’t attend pack ones, work for less than minimum wage while struggling not to be picked off by the forsaken or hunters, forever blamed because they did the one thing all you egotistical men did. They had a child and you all shun them for it, it takes two people to have a baby Valen, yet only the women

a rogue whore? That’s how you became a rogue, you weren’t born one, I won’t raise another person’s kid because you wanted to screw around,” he says with

is exactly what I meant; he still shared the same beliefs as his father, the title

am not a rogue whore, but it shouldn’t matter if I was. This entire place is run by rogue whores, Valen. Not like we tried to keep it a secret,” I tell him. Technically I wasn’t lying. I wasn’t a rogue whore. My

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about your friend you live with then?”