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Big City Wolf
Book: Big City Wolf Read Online Free
Author: Cynthia Sax
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carefully lifted the black cotton sheet she’d pulled over her body and brushed her hair aside.
    Fuck . Her entire back was covered with scars. The pain she must have felt. North pressed his lips together, swallowing his howl of agony. Protect mate ! His wolf raged to be free, clawing, snapping at his controls. He clenched his hands into fists and closed his eyes, fighting the shift. She needed the sensitive, rational man, not his instinct-driven, emotional wolf.
    “It’s okay.” Her voice was quiet as though all of the life, her spark, had been beaten out of her. He’d allowed her to be beaten. She was his mate, his to protect, and he’d allowed her to be harmed. “You don’t have to look. I’ll go.” Skin slid against fabric.
    “No.” He grabbed her wrist and met her gaze. Her eyes shone with a watery sheen and a single trail of moisture glistened on her cheek. I’ve hurt her more . His stomach twisted. “You’re not going anywhere, mate.”
    “I’m not your mate.” She turned her face away from him. “Not any longer. Let me go.” She tugged on her arm.
    “Never.” North slid his body over hers, flattening her into the mattress, squashing her efforts to escape, to run from him. “I’m never letting you go. I did that once, beautiful. I’m not making the same mistake again.”
    “I’m no longer beautiful.”
    She bucked, trying to dislodge him, her ass bouncing against his hard cock. Fuck . He wanted her, but they needed to talk first.
    “You saw my back, and I’m in my human form. In my wolf form…”
    In her wolf form, she’d be almost bald. There’d be scars where her gorgeous brown fur had been, fur she’d once prided herself on. Feeling her pain, he kissed her shoulder. “Your beauty isn’t in your back.” He pressed his lips between her shoulder blades. “Or in your face.” He licked the tears off her cheek. “Or even in your eyes.” He kissed her arched eyebrow. “ You’re beautiful, Ember. You are.”
    “Don’t lie to me. I saw your look of disgust.” She sniffled.
    “When have I ever lied to you?” He sat upright, straddling her, and gazed down at her scarred skin. She suffered through this because she loved me. She’s still suffering, my brave she-wolf . “And what you saw wasn’t disgust. It was anger at your father and at myself.”
    He followed one long scar with his fingertips, the links of a silver chain permanently burned into her flesh. “I was a young, arrogant fool and I was careless with you, mate.” He sucked the pink puckers into his mouth. “With your love.” He rubbed his chin against her chin. “How can you ever forgive me?” Hopelessness welled up inside him. “Tell me what I can do, anything, everything, and I’ll do it.”
    “Let me go.” She pushed against the mattress, but he wouldn’t allow her to rise.
    Part of him, the sniveling, cowardly stray, wanted to release her, knowing he could never make up for the pain, but the man, the alpha wolf vowed to try, to protect her, to fill the rest of her life with joy.
    “Except for that.” He swiped a scar with the flat of his tongue, and she trembled. “If I let you go, all of this would be for nothing. You bore this pain for me, the pack stray.” The thought was inconceivable yet the proof was on her skin.
    “You were never a stray to me,” she mumbled into the sheets. “I loved you.”
    Loved . He stilled, fear gripping his soul. “And do you still love me?” He held his breath.
    Ember nodded and he exhaled. “Too much to stay. You deserve better.” She wiggled, her movements tormenting his already aroused body.
    North ignored his desire, focusing on his woman. “There’s no one better than you, my mate.” He swirled heated circles into her muscles with his wet tongue, lowering, lowering, lowering until he stretched out on top of her, covering her like a blanket. “And every time I look at your back, I’ll remember that you chose me. Me , Ember. You chose me above your pack,
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