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
Claire’s POVGideon looked over my shoulder, seeing the picture in my hands. He didn’t say anything, just calmly and supportively placed his hand on my shoulder. I was happy to have it, to feel the subtle weight of it anchoring me to this present moment here in this hotel room, when all I wanted to
Gideon’s POVWith all the corruption running rampant in my pack, it was difficult to know who to trust. I had a few guards that I had known most of my life who I trusted, as well as Xavier. But in the end, there was no one I trusted more than Claire.As Raven, she had been my right hand, and the def
“His death wasn’t entirely unexpected,” Mara told us. “We’d all seen the downward spiral. But he was still too young. It was a blow, but especially to Eric. I think they had tickets to go to a baseball game that weekend, the local team.”“I think Eric thinks he could have saved Daniel from himself,”
Claire’s POVThe picture haunted me down to my bones, but it wasn’t the only thing in the box. While I gawked at it, Gideon peered through the rest. He pulled out a small softcover notebook. Written across the front was the word, Diary.It could have belonged to my uncle, though he didn’t seem the j







