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
“Thank you, Peter,” I said.“Give my regards to our home,” Peter replied.With Leo protected now, I had no more reasons to stay. Nova had taken the news of our departure relatively well. For a long time now, she had been torn between two homes. I knew she loved Leo and liked Gideon, but she didn’t r
Gideon’s POVI stood in the hallway, my legs aching but the pain tolerable. I was there for a while, staring at the closed door of the operating room, wondering what was happening with my son. How bad was the damage? Would they be able to save him?What had my poor child gone through during his capt
The guards at the pack house had already been informed of our arrival and our purpose. Because of this, those that had been selected as Leo’s bodyguards in my absence were waiting in the courtyard. I recognized them at once as the ones I had disliked.Most of them seemed shamed for their actions, th
Claire’s POVThat evening I met Ivan at the front of the pack house, as he had decided to take me to one of the few restaurants of the pack which just so happened to be nearby. Ivan was something of a homebody, barely socializing outside of the pack house, especially when not work related, so a nigh







