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 POVI wasn’t so sure about this. Yes, I wanted justice for my mother, but we already knew Darius couldn’t be trusted. I doubted he would keep his word.Yet, Gideon seemed confident that this would work out for us. I knew he had been working hard in cleaning away the corruption from our pack
Claire’s POVI blinked, looking at Gideon strangely. He seemed earnest, but the request was so sudden that I couldn’t fathom it was genuine. He would want to try again? After everything that had happened? After all these years had passed?He genuinely wanted to try to be with me a second time?It se
Claire’s POVI was still as a statue, entirely frozen in shock, gaping at Gideon like he was a stranger I had never seen before – or like he had grown a second head off of his shoulder.He couldn’t be… proposing? I hadn’t even thought through whether I wanted to date or not! Or live together! And no
Claire’s POVDarius smirked like the overconfident asshole he could sometimes be – when he wasn’t being a vicious little coward, anyway. Right now, he grinned like he had all the good cards in his hand and was finally ready to show it.“Darius,” George said, taking in the sight of the man. “What are







