MasukThe crowd cheered, but none were louder than our excited children.Ivan’s POVIt was good of Claire to invite me to her wedding. I’d thought for a while that I might avoid the whole thing, but now that I was here, that I could be surrounded by the obvious love between the pair, I was glad that I had
Claire’s POVThe day of our wedding, I couldn’t stop looking at myself in the mirror. I was wearing a flowing white dress that Leo and Nova had helped me pick out. My hair was done up in a bun. I barely recognized myself, so put together and done up.“You look like a princess,” Nova said from nearby
Gideon’s POVI kissed Claire with my full heart, then held her close. She giggled, pressed into the safety of my arms.“We can talk about it now,” she said. “Or you could kiss me again. I liked that.”“I want to,” I told her truly. “I don’t want to stop kissing you. But after all this, I want to see
Claire’s POVI was dragged out of the trunk roughly by my arms, then shoved down into the dirt at Daphne’s feet.Quickly, I glanced around, but I didn’t really recognize where I was. A forest, but I had no idea which one. Tents were set up here and there and people I didn’t know milled about. This m
George glanced over, seeing me in the dim interior light.“He loves you,” he said.“He does.”“Do you love him, too?”“Yes,” I said. It came out easier than I thought it would. “Yes, I do,” I said again, to be sure. This time was just as easy.“Good,” George said. “Gideon is a good man, a brave and
Claire’s POVWe had a handful of hours before we needed to leave for the exchange. In that time, George had me fitted for body armor.“They will likely attempt to remove it from you,” he said. “But try to keep it on for as long as you can. I don’t know what kind of torture they will attempt, but thi
Gideon’s POV“If I wanted to have the girl’s DNA tested against my son’s, to see if they are related in anyway, would that be possible? And how?” I asked into the phone.On the other end of the line, the healer at the hospital replied in a crisp, no-nonsense voice, “It is possible, Alpha. We would s
Gideon’s POVI was totally shocked. My hands froze, the papers falling out of them. “You… what?”I must have misheard, because there was no way that Raven was truly talking about leave me, my pack, and Leo behind. Not if she was really Claire.For the first time in a while, I started to have some do
Claire’s POV“Miss Warrior!” Leo shouted as he saw Nova and I coming down the hallway. He immediately dropped whatever it was that he was doing to rush towards us. “Nova! You are back!”Nova met him halfway and they tightly hugged. After breaking the hug, Leo smiled at us both. “Where have you been?
Claire’s POVHow. Dare. He.Gideon was going to accuse me of abandoning Leo? After all the hardships he had put on me? After I had been cast out of the pack, and left for dead among the rogues? I didn’t care how much of that he had been responsible for, and how much was Daphne plotting or whispering







