LOGINMy gaze sweeps across the courtyard, taking in the faces, the laughter, and the sense of peace that still feels surreal.And then my eyes find her.Xena.I can’t bring myself to call her Lola, just as she can’t bring herself to call me Sadie. To everyone else, we are Lola and Sadie but to each other
“Sadie?” Alec murmurs gently beside me, voice low and coaxing. “You ready?”I turn, and he’s there, exactly where he’s always been. Tall, steady, eyes soft in a way I once thought I’d never be on the receiving end of. He’s holding our son in his arms, swaddled in a light silver blanket that shimmers
He already knows. He always does.“Ready?” I say quietly, though everyone hears me.“Definitely… Been waiting to make you officially mine for months,” he says, earning a chuckle from everyone.Slowly, he puts Aspen down, who is smiling from ear to ear.We told her the truth, that Alec is her dad, an
The night is quiet. Not the tense quiet that comes before war, not the brittle silence of grief but a living stillness, deep and steady, like the world has finally exhaled.It has been a month since the battle. A month since blood stained this land. A month since Kaden fell. A month since I learned
Kaden sees it too late. He lunges, but we are faster.I raise my hand and time stops and light pours from me in radiant waves. Lola steps forward, shadows trailing her like smoke. Light and shadow coil around us, not fighting, but circling, choosing. The air thickens, charged, every particle vibrat
The guilt is suffocating. It crawls up my throat like it wants to rip me apart from the inside.This isn’t how it was meant to be. This isn’t how it was meant to end. Kaden wasn’t supposed to win.I wipe away the tears. No! I refuse to let her die.I feel something crack open in my chest at my deter
AlecI groan as my eyes flutter open. The putrid smell assaults me, and pain consumes me in every inch of my body.It takes me a while for my brain to load, but when I do, both Knox and I release a ferocious roar. That fucking little bitch. I can’t believe that she broke my damn spine. There would d
“What the hell is she?” Someone whispered next to me. The question brought me back to what Sadie had said the two vampires had asked her when they were feeding. Could this be what they meant? Is it possible that they sensed something in her blood, something that none of us knew about her? Her dead
Raven. When I woke up this morning, I didn’t think that things would go to shit the way they were going right now. I’m a witch, a special witch, as my mom used to tell me. I got that odd feeling first thing when I opened my eyes. That heavy weight on my chest, that premonition of something bad hap
I’ve been trying not to think about what happened yesterday. Trying to block it out because, one, I didn’t know how to handle it and two, I didn’t have all the information.“Yes, in a way,” she answered with one eye open.“What does that mean?”“It means that even though her powers will be a bit wat







