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As he stands over her and brings his lips to her sensitive mating gland, he’s not sure if she’ll forgive him for this.

“I love you,” he whispers into her ear, and her breath hitches. “I’m sorry.”

Gently moving her hair from her clammy skin, he sinks his teeth into her sensitive mating gland.

CHAPTER 36

BREE

She’s cold.She can’t move.

Her ears ring as she gazes at nothing, unblinking.

Everything is so heavy. It’s impossible to move her fingers. They stay frozen in her lap as she takes in shaky breaths, her lungs struggling to work.

Someone’s in the room with her.

An Alpha? The scent is delicious, familiar, and…

Cole.

Cole is in the room, the familiar scent of rust—blood—mixing with his essence.

No,she thinks to herself.He’s a killer, he’s the one behind all of this?—

She thinks she hears his voice break, but the buzzing in her head is too loud for her to hear what he says.

She’s floating far away from everything and everyone.

She’s never going to come back, she decides.

It’s better that way.

Gone from Cole, Darlene, her mother, Carl…everyone.

She’ll disappear from the world.

She can be with her dad again. Her dad, who would know how to handle everything. Who wouldn’t be as weak as her, who wouldn’t havefallen in lovewith?—

She’ll get a different hotel and make sure that there’s no cleaning crew to check on her.

She’ll make sure she bleeds out this time. Maybe she’ll steal her mother’s blood thinners.

It’s done. She’s done.

She’s—

C’mon, kiddo, snap out of it.

Her father’s voice, the one she’s missed so much, fills her head, and tears fill her eyes.

“Come back to me,” another voice begs.

There’s nowhere to go back to.

A faintmeowfills the room.

Is there a cat in the room?