LOGINThe 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 POVWhen I arrived to the hospital with the hair samples, I was greeted by the Healer who I had spoken to on the phone. He accepted the hairs and promised to get to work right away.“It will take a few days,” he said.I was ready and willing to wait however long it took. Though I hoped it w
“No,” I said flatly, adding some chill to my voice. It wasn’t difficult to generate anger with Gideon, given our past. That anger was going to save me here. “The matter is part of my pack’s internal business and is no concern of yours.”“I meant no offense,” Gideon said. “But I feel like I have a ri
Claire’s POVI would never be able to compete with a dead woman. No one could. I also didn’t know that I would even want to try.I cared about Ivan, but not in the ways the King was thinking. If Ivan cared in any kind of way for me, he had never purposefully expressed those feelings. We had some mom
Claire’s POVReturning to Gideon’s pack was dangerous, I could acknowledge that. Now that Gideon knew Claire was still around, he might connect dots that I wished would otherwise remain unconnected. But I felt confident that my identity as Raven was still protected.But even if he did harbor some su







