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    Summary

    Hugo Banks understands violence.
    After thirty-one years of learning that everything has a price, freedom is considerably harder to understand.
    At the sanctuary that takes him in, he begins learning the world again through the only languages that make sense to him: color, scent and touch. Apple means distress. Flowers mean happiness. An unlocked door means nobody is keeping him prisoner.
    And sandalwood means Dace.
    Dace Clarks is an alpha too—calm, patient, impossibly safe. Hugo follows his scent before he trusts his words. Then he starts leaving his own scent behind. Then touching. Drawing. Wanting.
    Neither of them expects an alpha to become another alpha's sanctuary.
    Their instincts have other ideas.

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