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I don’t think there was ever a moment when I was in Alpha Tyrell’s pack that I felt underwhelmed. I was either confused at how extravagant things were or just in pure awe.“Dinner is served,” Deirdre announced as she led us to the dining area, which was a large space with too many overhead lights and chandeliers to count above us, candles I believed were unnecessary all strewn in a straight line on the extremely long table with chairs on each side of the table.And the dinner…“This is dinner?” I asked, a mild hint of shame wrapping around me as I felt ashamed to even ask that because it was obviously dinner and I just wasn’t used to seeing so much food in one place unless there was a special occasion.“Of course,” Deirdre laughed as if I had said something extremely funny. She led me to one of the chairs on the right side of the table and sat with me. “Dig in. I had it catered especially for you and your soldiers. I’m sure you’ll want your energy back after such a long journey.”With

“Deirdre finally wrote back,” Darius announced as he walked into the room, an opened letter in his hand.We had been waiting for over three days for a response from Deirdre. During that time, I had entertained the thought that maybe they had turned against us as well, but it turned out they probably hadn’t after all.“It says here that it took her this long to write back because she’s been preparing to welcome you,” Darius explained as he showed me the letter, and I nodded with a smile as I turned toward the closet and started to pick out my clothes.“I’ll be there for two days. That’ll be enough for me to convince them to stay on our side, right?” I asked, and he nodded in response.“Are you going to be alright here?” I asked him as he helped me pick out what to wear. He was going to stay back and see if he could get any more allies. We had been writing more and more, and we were starting to get some responses that we could turn positive.“Of course. I need to stay and oversee everyt

I stood in front of the cell where the werewolf who had been caught sat in. It had been two days since I’d heard the news, and I found it hard to relax so I had to stay in the hospital for one more day.“Are you awake?” I asked as I watched the wolf sit there with his eyes closed, facing the door to the cell.He opened his eyes slowly and looked directly at me. After some seconds, there was a smile on his face. One that didn’t tell me he was happy to see me there. He was just happy I was there to listen to whatever he had to say.“Ah, Zara,” he said in a singsong tone. “I didn’t think you’d come. I’ve been waiting for you.”I turned to Darius in confusion. He looked back at me, just as confused, as he told me, “He’s never said anything about you before. In fact, he barely spoke to me.”I turned back to the wolf and cocked my head at him. “Do you have something you want to say specifically to me?”“It’s a message, if you will. Not from the people I work with but myself,” he said with a

I jerked awake with a gasp and found myself alone in a sterile room which I immediately knew as one of the rooms in the pack hospital.“I’m not dead,” was the first thing I whispered, slightly surprised at how easy it was for me to speak compared to how hard it was to even move my lips the last time I was conscious.The door opened, and Darius walked in with a fussy Aaron in his hands. As soon as he saw me sitting up, he grinned and rushed over to me. “How are you doing?”“Very good, actually,” I replied. “I don’t have a headache. I don’t feel as weak as I did, and I can speak properly now. What did the doctor say about it? What was wrong with me?”I carried Aaron out of his hands when Darius didn’t give me an answer and kissed him on the forehead. “Has he had anything since I was knocked out?”“Yes. The doctor advised that we wean you while you were unconscious,” he answered. “And we did a pretty solid job at keeping him from being bored. Sometimes he would lay on your chest until he

“I don’t quite remember how much of it they got from me,” Diane answered, but I could tell just by looking at her that she remembered vividly. She looked horrified to even tell me the answer, but I had to know even though I was more than scared to know.“Diane, I know you’re lying to me.” I grabbed her by the shoulders and forced her to look at me. “I know you know the answer. And trust me, the last thing I want to do is find out as well but I have to face this. If I want to find out how to stop this, I’ll have to find out just how much of this we’re looking at.”There were tears now brimming at Diane’s eyes as she shook her head.“I feel so ashamed to even think about it. I was blinded by my rage and—”“I don’t care about that, Diane!” I yelled at her. “How much of it did you give to the humans?”She finally raised her head to look into my eyes, and I hated what I was about to hear next. I hated how my stomach twisted into knots.“I really don’t know how much of it was in the bag, bu

“Everything is falling apart,” I heard Darius mutter as he paced back and forth in the bedroom.“Can we just sit and talk about this for a minute?” I asked, gesturing at the bed for him to sit.“What haven’t we done, Zara?” He asked as his frustration started to boil over. “How many more times are we going to sit down and talk about it? We thought we had the witches on our side, and look at it now,”“I told you that the witches told me we had made a new enemy. It’s my fault for not pressing and asking them to tell me everything. They probably knew the whole time that the humans were coming for us. That happened way before they agreed to be on our side.”“None of this is your fault, Zara. If they really were on our side, they would have told you about the humans this whole time. At this point, who exactly do we trust and who do we suspect? How are we supposed to trust that the vampires won’t attack us when they get the chance?”“I’ll go talk to the witches. I’ll ask them everything, an