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
Claire’s POV Without Ivan around, I had no distractions from my dark and lonely thoughts. I stared out the window for most of the day and night, not really seeing anything that was there in the present. Instead, I was replaying the past. My life with Nova. Being reunited with Leo. The fleeting but
Claire’s POV Ivan seemed hesitant to tell me anything, but I just kept my gaze on him, telling him without words that I wasn’t going to back down without some explanation. I’d been kept in the dark too long already. If we were going to be married, we needed to be able to communicate. We were suppo
I couldn’t accept this was all I could do. “There must be some way you can interfere. You are the Alpha King. Your rule is law.” “How would it look if I pulled children away from their Alpha father?” George said. “I’m sorry, Ivan. I know you don’t ask for much, and I wish I could help you and that
It was a disaster waiting to happen, and I felt like I was an imprisoned observer, forced to watch it all unfold. Claire was a great woman. She deserved to be loved by someone who could fully see her for all that she was, and love every inch of her, the good and the bad. Yet, even as I thought tha







