I try to shake my head, but the tears spill anyway. Alec doesn’t hesitate. He pulls me into his chest and murmurs low, “Come with me.”Before I can protest, he guides me down the hall and into his room. He closes the door behind us and steers me gently toward the sofa, keeping one arm around me as t
I walk back to the packhouse slowly, my steps dragging, my thoughts heavy. My thoughts circle around what I learned from Nyx and Piper’s. Her tear-soaked face sticks to my mind like a tattoo.I feel for her. I feel her fears, the uncertainty of the situation. If Calvin hadn’t been locked up, they’d
My chest aches for her. I know what it’s like to carry too much alone, to think silence protects the ones you love when really it just builds more walls.She doesn’t want to worry him, but what she doesn’t understand is that by blocking him, she’s already worrying him.“Piper,” I say softly, “he’s y
“What?”I’d guessed it, but hearing Nyx confirm it twits something inside my chest.“You can sense new life about to begin, while Xena senses a life when it’s about to end” Nyx says.“So, anything or anyone about to die, she feels that?”“Yes.”I press a hand on my chest, feeling as if a heavy weigh
Nyx answers firmly. “You’re progressing, Sadie. You’re letting your walls fall, brick by brick. That is strength, not weakness. You’ve always been powerful, but power without trust? That only cages you. Last night proved you can open the cage.”Her words warm something deep in me, something that’s b
Sadie’s POVThe forest is quiet in the early morning, hushed and still as though the world itself hasn’t woken yet. Mist lingers low between the trees, curling like silver smoke, and the damp earth softens each step I take.I didn’t mean to end up here. I’d woken up to find the space beside me empty