Novels by Denny Ink

Sage.Aurora had changed. I could tell because her eyes no longer had that hearty look in them. She looked like she had awoken from a mental slumber and now she knew who she was. Her confidence in who she was made me a bit envious.The hair on my body stood erect as Aurora finally glanced at me. The cold hunger in her eyes made take a wary step back. I had no idea what was going on through her mind as she gazed at me."Aurora?" I called gingerly, hoping. "Sage," she murmured firmly as she eyed me up. "You remember me?" I asked tentatively."Why would I forget ever forget you?" She asked with a slight frown on her face. She craned her neck and her neon green hair began to change colors."What did you do?" I demanded, slightly turning to Dominic who was still catching his breath. I could feel his golden energy fade slowly.He needed to rest for a long time if he wanted to be back in to his normal self."He was trying to help me...and he did. I remember who I am now." Aurora stated.I

Sage."You are overpowered and confused. Being connected to three Alphas is overwhelming, and you deny your reality," Limbo King said gravely.His words were true but they also haunted me. He was right but confusing as well.Truth be told, I was beginning to doubt who I really was lately. I was running from myself and that is why I was always being surprised all the time when I almost died.I sighed and shook my head. "This is not even the life that I asked for." I was tired."None of us asks to exist, we just are. It's the choices we make that matters." He said to me.I nodded. He was right again."You said that my spirit drifts because I don't know who I am." I said. "What does it mean?""You know what I mean, Sage Winters. If you waste time running from yourself, you will lose...them." Limbo King's voice scrapped at me.I nodded. "I have killed quite a number of people today," I said with a sad smile."If you want to that to stop, then you only need to accept who you truly are."

Sage.The Specialists made me uncomfortable as they carried away the bodies of the men that I had violently killed.They were three in number and clad themselves in long back coats with gloves and masks that obscured their faces.I was still buzzing with the aftermath of the deadly scream that I had emitted.I was weak from this unexpected ordeal. Something was happening to me and I did not understand what it was."You should go to your room and rest, you look like you are about to fall over," Argos gently suggested as be supervised the clearing of the bodies."What will happen to her?" I asked, ignoring his suggestion as I took one final look at Lady Baron's face before it was zipped in the black body bag."There is nothing else to be done to the dead, Luna Sage." Argos replied gravely.There was that title again. Luna. I hated the way it sounded. It felt like a stain on my identity. "I did not mean for this to happen," I muttered wearily. "I did not want to kill anyone.""Do not

Sage.I was leaving this fucking place. I was done with this Luna bullshit. My head pounded painfully and I could hear the blood rushing through my head as I walked to nowhere. The humming in my ears increased as I bumped into people. I was momentarily confused and disoriented by what was happening to me. I was hearing everything at once and seeing everything. It was too loud and I was raging inside. I felt an uncomfortable feeling of wanting to explode into pieces. I needed to be alone. I found an exit door on the floor I was on and took the stairs. It was a long way to the roof and I felt like I could use the exercise. I ran up the stairs like a crazy person and held my breath as I tore my way up.I needed to burn off some steam or I was really going to start losing my mind. I had no idea what was happening to me."You are hyperventilating, Sage," Oracle said to me. "Your senses are high strung and volatile. You need to calm down."I ignored the entity in me and kept on runnin

Dominic.I was in the primal wilderness. The atmosphere screamed of an ancient savagery as I looked around. The forest smelled fresher and natural.I was very well aware of where I was. I was in the memory of Aurora. This was not supposed to happen. I was not worried that I was here but I had expected to kick start her memory.I sensed no one here but I knew that I was not alone. I looked around and only saw a vast ground and thick trees of forest.The air was cold and it was daylight around morning time. I had no idea where this place was.But I knew that Aurora had been here before or at least a version of her.I stepped forward not knowing where I was going but it was better than standing still. It was dangerous to be a stagnant target in the middle of nowhere.In fact, the sense of imminent danger was increasing as I remained still. I moved silently unsure of what I was going to come across.It felt like I was walking in circles after what seemed like an eternity had passed. I sto

Dominic.I picked up Aurora from the floor and was momentarily shocked by how heavy she was despite how petite she looked. There was no wound on her but I knew exactly what had happened to her. She had underestimated Sunder and paid for it. She was going to be unconscious for a few hours. Aurora's presence here in my domain was not random. It was planned in a very subtle way. I had a knack for identifying people with powerful potentials.

He was too perceptive for his own good, tuned into every current of fear running through our house whether he understood it or not. I couldn't hide anything from him anymore. Apparently I never really could."I'll fix it," I promised."I know." He pressed a small hand against my cheek, and for just a second, exhaustion loosened its grip on me. "You're the bravest mommy in the whole world."I pulled him into my arms and held on longer than I should have. "Where did you learn to say things like that?""I don't know. I just know it's true."***

The phone rang at four in the morning, and I already knew before I answered that nothing good ever called at that hour. I fumbled for it in the dark, heart already pounding before I'd even seen the name on the screen."Ms. Aurora, it's Gerald."His voice was tight in a way I'd never heard from him before. Gerald didn't panic. Gerald negotiated, read rooms, smiled while he twisted the knife. He didn't call before sunrise, not once in five years, not even the week Ironwood almost fell through the first time.I was already out of bed, laptop halfway open, adrenaline doing the work my brain hadn't caught up to yet. "What happened?""Sterling Holdings. They're making a move.""What kind of move?""They're claiming we violated our agreement with Ironwood. Non-compete clauses, proprietary information, it's nonsense, Ms. Aurora, but they've got a small army of lawyers and they're threatening to tie us up in litigation for years."The blood left my face in one long drop. "Ironwood is our bigge

I sat on the edge of Caelum's bed that night and didn't turn on the lamp. I just watched him breathe.He looked so small like this, dark hair fanned across the pillow, stuffed wolf crushed under one arm, breath slow and even. Any other five-year-old. Innocent. Normal. Safe.He wasn't any of those things, and I was the only one who knew it yet, sitting here in the dark keeping watch over a secret that had already cost one woman her life.I thought about the way Lena's uncle had looked at me, searching my face for something familiar he couldn't quite place. I thought about the forest, still standing untouched after thirty years bec

I arrived twenty minutes early, the way I always did, and let my security team sweep the room while I read the proposal one more time.Old habits die hard. Even now I checked the exits before I sat. Back to the wall. Every face in the room, catalogued for threats that probably weren't there.My lead man, Grant, came back from the far corner and gave me a small nod. "Clean, Ms. Vance.""Thank you." I set the proposal down and folded my hands over it, arranging my face into the neutral, unreadable expression that had gotten me through a hundred negotiations with men who underestimated me on sight, back when I was building this comp

She didn't tell me all at once. It came out over three days, in pieces, always when Caelum was at preschool or asleep down the hall, like even the truth had to wait until he couldn't hear it."Your mother wasn't a servant," Mara said on the first evening, the two of us alone in the kitchen with the lights low. "Not really.""What do you mean, not really? She scrubbed floors for the Beta's household. I remember the calluses on her hands.""She was hiding, Aria. She was the daughter of a powerful Alpha, a pack that doesn't exist anymore. It was destroyed before you were even conceived. Its people scattered or killed. Crestwood absorbed what was left of the territory."Something in my chest tightened, a name I didn't know yet already aching to be spoken. "What pack?""Silverwood."The word landed strange, familiar in a way it shouldn't have been, like a note struck on an instrument I didn't remember owning. "I've never heard that name in my life.""You wouldn't have. They made sure of th

The morning I agreed to meet with Silver Creek, Caelum woke up burning.I felt it before I understood it, my hand on his forehead, then yanked back like I'd touched a stove. His eyes were open but wrong, glassy, fixed on nothing."Caelum?" I shook his shoulder gently. "Baby, look at me."Nothing. His chest rose and fell too fast, little puffs of breath like he'd been running."Caelum." Louder this time, my hand still on his shoulder. "Can you hear me?"His head turned, slow, like it cost him something. "Mommy." His voice didn't sound like his. Too flat. Too far away, like it was traveling to me through water. "There's a man at the edge of the woods. He's looking for something."My chest went cold. "What man?""The one with the wolf inside him. He's sad." Caelum's unfocused eyes stared past my shoulder, at the wall, at nothing. "He lost something a long time ago and he doesn't know what it was.""Mara!" I didn't recognize my own voice. "Mara, get in here!"She appeared in the doorway a