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 pinch the bridge of my nose when, yet again, my pack screams after Sadie disappears.I saw it in her face. It wasn’t like she was trying to hide it or anything. She enjoyed the fact that she had scared the crap out of them. She loved that she had gotten to torment them.The fear in their face
He clenches his jaw but says nothing. Instead, he goes ahead of me and leads the way. Minutes later, I realized that we were headed to the conference room. We get there, and the other Elders arrive soon after.“What is she doing here? And how is she alive?” one of them asks in shock.They were all s
Sadie.By the time I was done training, I was tired. So freaking tired. Who knew teleporting from one place to another would be draining? I didn’t have any energy whatsoever.“Today, you did well.” Nyx praises in a soft voice. “I’m glad that you were able to get it so quickly.”“Well, it wasn’t easy
“Are you sure you are ready for this?” King asks, as I shove my clothes inside my suitcase.Stopping, I stare at him for a minute. “No, but it’s the only way to get what I want.”I’ve gone over my decision over and over again. I’m not one to reconsider something I’ve already decided. I make a decisi







