Mag-log inThe 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
Leo’s POVI had never been this frightened before in my entire life. My kidnappers hadn’t said anything to me, but I was certain that they wanted to kill me. I knew that, scared as I was, if I didn’t do something to save myself, they would just do it.I wasn’t going to just sit here and let them kil
Claire’s POVWhen Leo fell unconscious, it felt as if half of my heart had simply… stopped. Then, an instant later, everything became too fast, too intense, and I felt like I was going to burst straight out of my skin.Leo was unconscious and needed medical care. I had to save him. I had to do somet
“We can’t wait until morning,” I said. “We need to get to the border at once.”Leo’s POVEveryone at the pack house seemed to be on edge, but I didn’t really care. I missed Raven and Nova. No one else around would pay attention to me or play with me. My own bodyguards treated me like I was a nuisanc
Gideon’s POVThings were tense around my pack house while other protection was being arranged for Leo. It was taking a long time to properly select and train Raven’s replacements, and most of that holdup was because of me.The past few days, since Raven presented her resignation, I’d been dragging m







