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
“I don’t get it, so she told you that you'd have all the benefits of a shifted wolf, but you won’t be able to shift?” King asked incredulously, his face conveying how hard he was finding it hard to believe me. I nodded my head, still reeling from what Nyx had told me. I’d stayed in the forest fo
“Do you honestly think that?” I'm still a bit unsure. "Yes,” she replies softly. “I know that Sadie is meant for something big, and you, my darling Raven, are meant to be by her side.” I just nod, still unable to really comprehend what she has just revealed. I continue staring at one place. Comple
We can sense if a person is supernatural, but we can’t easily tell which species they are exactly. “We are banished,” I simply said, gauging his reaction. He just shrugs like it’s nothing. “It doesn’t bother you that we are banished?” Rave asked in disbelief. “Not really. I’m a lone wolf, and I’
I don’t say anything. I just shut the door in her face. I don’t care if it's rude. They don’t deserve anything from me, and they won’t be getting anything from me.I get dressed quickly, then leave my room. I'll have to spend time with Aspen later on. The sooner I get this damn curse fixed, the soon







