"Us?" He caught my wrist, his grip firm. "There is no us. You made that very clear."
"I was being realistic." I let tears well in my eyes. They weren't real, but he wouldn't know the difference. "I was protecting myself from the inevitable. From the moment my father marries me off to some Alpha I’ve never met and I lose everything."
"But Una..." he started.
"Una is different," I cut him off. "We made that happen. We orchestrated it. And
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