“Funny, I didn’t think I’d be able to sneak up on you.” Her Christmas pajama’s, a size too big, made her look several years younger. There was nothing youthful about the light in her eyes, the cunning. “Gregory was relocated to outside the house. He patrols the grounds now instead of coming inside.
We were in the lounge, the fireplace crackling loudly. It filled each burst of conversation, each web entangled with another, with warmth. I held a mug of spiced hot chocolate piled high with marshmallows and spiked heavily by Evangeline. The alcohol had burned a path straight down to my belly, clea
AnastasiaIf the moment with the security footage drew the line, then it was officially crossed the following day when Fallon joined me and Evangeline, who was incognito after publicly calling Marjorie Windsor’s latest move in her smear campaign the ‘frantic ramblings of a woman at her wits end’ at
“The guards outside. Do you know their names?”A nagging feeling settled in the pit of my gut. If this Gregory Dixon had been brought in as a spy, then he wouldn’t take kindly to having been reassigned. Usually in that instance the spy lost their composure and made some last-ditch assassination atte
AnastasiaDamon rarely let anything show, which was an anomaly considering how volatile his magic was.“They aren’t using outside sources,” his voice was a low rumble like the shifting of volcanic rock. Spearing me with his golden eyes, eyes that glowed more molten than Caius’s, he honed his rage in
Three weeks later and I fled, my temporary home nothing more than an inferno of Vladimir’s rage, cracking and roaring behind me.But it wasn’t just Vladimir I’d angered these years on the run.It was his inner circle.Four faces I had obliterated from my memory out of the child-like fear I’d once he