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 hate it when people answer a question with a question. “Yeah, I have some business to discuss with The Hope Pack’s Alpha. I’m headed there right now.” I hear her squeal loudly, and I’m forced to pull the handset away from my ear so that I don’t damage my ears. “Piper, you’re going to make me de
Anonymous.Sighing, I lean back against my seat and just stare at spot on my mahogany desk. Like I said, everything was going according to plan, but I still didn’t know how to bring him completely back.So far, what I’ve found is that I need her. I need her powers. My mother put a spell on him. One
Micah’s eyes didn’t leave Jason. “I don’t know, maybe because I wasn’t an asshole to Sadie? Or maybe it’s because, unlike the rest of you, I didn’t partake in torturing the living daylights out of her.”I study him. Really study him. Sure, he never laid a hand on her, but something told me that it w
“Why you…” he goes to attack her, but she flings her hand, sending him flying and crashing against the wall behind us.“Well, that’s new,” she murmured, looking at her hands.Jason gets up, and Micah stops him before he can try to launch another attack on Sadie.“I’m not happy about this, and Alec i







