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7 Chapters
Chapter 12 Birthday Surprise img
Chapter 13 Fake Girlfriend, Real Problems img
Chapter 14 The Big Shirt img
Chapter 15 I'm Not For Sale img
Chapter 16 The Glass Cage img
Chapter 17 The Dangerous Protection img
Chapter 18 The Alpha's Cage img
Chapter 19 The Scent of a Trap img
Chapter 20 Protecting the Monster img
Chapter 21 Under the Spotlight img
Chapter 22 The Only Cure img
Chapter 23 The Alpha's Surrender img
Chapter 24 Round Two img
Chapter 25 The Sunday Morning Buzzkill img
Chapter 26 The Blood Gamble img
Chapter 27 Blood Test img
Chapter 28 The Switch img
Chapter 29 Finally img
Chapter 30 Before the Truth img
Chapter 31 In Bed with a Monster img
Chapter 32 Fuck the Prophecy img
Chapter 33 What Have I Done img
Chapter 34 The Alpha's Rage img
Chapter 35 Better with a Monster img
Chapter 36 He Has The Video img
Chapter 37 Prison Orange or My Lab img
Chapter 38 Talk about Colours img
Chapter 39 Double Date Disaster img
Chapter 40 Come Over img
Chapter 41 Blood Samples & Wolf in the Park img
Chapter 42 The White Knight Investor img
Chapter 43 Mark Michael img
Chapter 44 Fight Smart img
Chapter 45 Wolf Head, Human Eyes img
Chapter 46 I Declare War img
Chapter 47 What If You Can't Control It img
Chapter 48 Thirty Minutes img
Chapter 49 My Boss Is a Monster img
Chapter 50 You Knew img
Chapter 51 I'm Not Leaving Her img
Chapter 52 The Smile img
Chapter 53 Then We're Fucked img
Chapter 54 He's Love-Bombing You img
Chapter 55 Blood in the Park img
Chapter 56 The Button img
Chapter 57 The Wolves are in the House img
Chapter 58 Scent of a Lie img
Chapter 59 The Purple Flowers img
Chapter 60 Guarding the Enemy img
Chapter 61 Golden Eyes in the Dark img
Chapter 62 Following the Money img
Chapter 63 The Mastermind's Move img
Chapter 64 No Backup img
Chapter 65 Two Minutes img
Chapter 66 Monster in the Room img
Chapter 67 SHOCKWAVE img
Chapter 68 A Stranger Now img
Chapter 69 Into the Lion's Den img
Chapter 70 Cold Ground img
Chapter 71 Blackwood's Money img
Chapter 72 A Family's Secret img
Chapter 73 The Only Safe Place img
Chapter 74 Twenty Bucks img
Chapter 75 Uninvited Guest img
Chapter 76 The line img
Chapter 77 The Shadow Wolf img
Chapter 78 Burning the Badge img
Chapter 79 The Poisoned Truth img
Chapter 80 Stripped img
Chapter 81 Floor People img
Chapter 82 Traitor img
Chapter 83 Proof img
Chapter 84 Rough and Wild img
Chapter 85 No More Secrets img
Chapter 86 Inside My Apartment img
Chapter 87 Rico img
Chapter 88 The Golden Cage img
Chapter 89 The Empty Chair img
Chapter 90 The Hero Act img
Chapter 91 The Fingerprint img
Chapter 92 The Secrets in My Pocket img
Chapter 93 I Don't Belong To You img
Chapter 94 The Journal img
Chapter 95 The Waiter's Escape img
Chapter 96 The Whistle img
Chapter 97 The Master of the Pack img
Chapter 98 The Real Hunt img
Chapter 99 This Is My Mountain img
Chapter 100 Guardian Angel img
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Chapter 7 Silver in my Blood

MEREDITH

The office was really quiet. Like, scary quiet. You know that feeling when the sun goes down and the cleaners haven't started yet, so the whole place feels like it's holding its breath? Yeah. That.

I was leaning against my desk, trying to breathe like a normal person, but my ribs felt like they were being squeezed by a giant, angry hand that really hated me.The adrenaline from roasting Victor earlier was totally gone. Now, I just felt like trash. All I had left was pain and exhaustion and the strong urge to lie face-down on the floor and never move again.

After Victor Langford, this can't be how it ends.

My side was hurting. It wasn't the sharp pain anymore. It was this weird, heavy ache that felt like it was spreading through my blood. I'm a wolf. I'm supposed to heal. Scratches vanished in an hour. Broken bones were annoying but manageable. This stupid wound, though, felt like it was spreading instead of shrinking, acting like I was a normal human.

"Okay, body. What the hell? Get it together."

That was when Elena walked in, She held out a folder like it was the most important thing in the world.

"Ms. Stevens," she said gently, "One last document, then you're officially free."

"Music to my ears."

I reached for my pen-my favorite gold one-and that's when everything went south. My hand started shaking, it shook hard and I couldn't control it.

Oh no. No, no, no.

Stop it. Are you kidding me? Move, hand. Move.

I forced my fingers on the pen.The second I did, I felt pain moving round my body like liquid fire and everything went still for a second.

That's when it hit me.

I hadn't even thought about the knife. I mean, who cares about the knife, right? I'd been stabbed, I'd been treating it like a normal cut, done my little herbal nonsense, assumed it would vanish like always. But this? This was... wrong. Really wrong. The pain wasn't fading. It was spreading. My blood was rejecting me. And then I realized-holy hell-it had to be silver. Of course it was silver. That's why nothing worked. That's why I wasn't healing.

My parents used to talk about it. The one thing that could actually mess us up. Silver.

I'd always thought they were being paranoid. Like, who the hell carries silver weapons in New York City?

Apparently, the asshole who stabbed me.

Oh, for God's sake, Silver. Are you kidding me?"l

"Ms. Stevens?" Elena's voice was suddenly right there. "You're... you're sweating. And you're really pale."

She reached out and touched my hand. She jumped back like I'd burned her. "You're freezing! Meredith, your skin is like ice."

I tried to pull back, tried to give her the 'Iron Goddess' look, but I was failing hard. "I'm fine, Elena. Just... it's the AC. It's too high."

"The AC is off," she said, her voice rising. "You look terrible. Like you saw a ghost. I'm calling a doctor."

"No," I snapped. "No doctors. No hospitals. Just... give me a minute."

The room started to spin. My parents weren't crazy. They were right. They were ready for this, and I was just sitting here pretending to be a CEO while my blood was literally turning against me.

"Meredith, please," Elena said, reaching for her phone. "You're scaring me."

I grabbed her wrist. My grip was weak, but it was enough.

"No hospitals," I whispered. "Elena, please. I can't. They'll ask questions. I can't answer them. No one can know. Fuck... just promise me."

Her eyes filled with tears.

Before she could answer, my laptop made a sharp sound.

Ping.

I looked up just in time to see a red box flash on the screen.

SECURITY BREACH DETECTED:

PENTHOUSE ACCESS

I laughed weakly. "You have got to be kidding me."

Someone was in my penthouse. My sanctuary. The one place where I could take off the heels and be the monster I was born to be. If it was Lucas, I'd kill him. If it was a burglar, I'd almost feel sorry for him-he was about to find a very grumpy, very poisoned werewolf

I tried to say something-to tell Elena to call Dave, or to run, Anything-but the words wouldn't come.

Everything went dark, like an old TV shutting off, and the last thing I heard was Elena screaming my name before everything just... stopped.

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