LOGINNatashaI step out of my tent, fully dressed for the day, and nearly run smack into Sebastian. We both pull back at the last second, and I feel highly aware of close we came to touching.“Sorry,” I mutter.“My fault,” he mutters back. “I was just coming to find you.”I raise my eyebrows in surprise.
Owen“What the…” Diego sputters out as I slam the door behind us. I’ve brought us into the music room which is empty save for a smattering of instruments.I stare Diego down more intensely than I mean to. “What of Natasha?”My brother seems immediately on his guard. “What of her?”“Did they believe
Owen“Isaiah,” I call from the threshold to the library. The first shelf has been completely redone, and its sisters line the walls in various forms of completion.One of my most trusted guards, the one who befriended Amelia, the one who I struggle to be near for the way he reminds me of her, approa
NatashaI don’t stay at the campfire for long after Carolina and Missy are dragged off to bed by the man I found out is their uncle.I didn’t have the heart to ask where their parents are.“I think I’ll get some sleep,” I say as I stand. I’m surprised when people I’ve just newly met through Carolina
Sebastian’s smile grows impossibly wider. “Of course. You don’t have to ask my permission to talk to her.”“That’s what I said!” a male adult a few seats away says. He must be their dad or otherwise guardian.“Yeah, but,” Carolina says, glancing nervously at me again. She lowers her voice as she ret
NatashaDante was brought back to the kingdom this morning. He spent one night in the First Quarter, and warriors took shifts watching over him as he slept.Sebastian and another Sun Warrior I don’t know bagged him at dawn and walked him back to the Red Forest to find his way home. I wanted to go wi
Owen“I swear,” I mutter loudly enough to be heard as I knock twice on Diego’s bedroom door and reach for the doorknob, “if you’re in your own room after I went looking for you all the way out underneath the willow tree…”I open my brother’s door to find a female in his arms.But not just any female
OwenFather ushers Diego in, asking if he needs us to call for the doctor. He shakes his head, looking between us. “I came to debrief you on my meeting with the Sun Warriors, but I can come back if—”“No, no,” Father cuts him off, closing the door to his office and motioning us over to the conferenc
AmeliaMy mouth drops open at Diego’s words. “What?”He smiles, but it’s not the smirk I’m used to seeing or the flirty half-smile. There’s a softness to it that makes me think of Isaiah.“He recognized you,” Diego says. “Sebastian. During the negotiation.”I remember the way the Sun Warrior studied
OwenI woke up this morning to arousal coming through the mate bond with Amelia.If I’m being completely and totally honest, I sprang out of bed, ripped open my door, and marched down the hall with the full intent to burst into her room and kill whoever was with my mate.About a step away from the d







