The Alpha's Crown
His long fingers curled against the blanket instead, tendons sharp beneath pale skin, restrained power in every line.
"It will not suffice," he said finally, his voice low and rough, as though speaking it cost him.
A chill skated over my skin. "Then... what will?"
For a long moment there was silence. Then his gaze lifted to mine.
And in that molten red, I saw it-the hunger. Not for what I had set before him. Something deeper, rawer. It made my skin prickle, my pulse trip.
"The blood of the hunt," he murmured, each word a confession dragged from his soul. "The life beneath fur and bone. Only that would sustain me when I am wounded." His gaze flicked to the tray with a faint grimace. "This...
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