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
Gideon’s POVI wanted to go and follow after Raven, but before I could Daphne stopped me. Her hand around my arm was like a tight rope.“Gideon my love.” She purred as she looked at me with fake innocence and caressed my arm “Why run after her? She should know better than to seduce you. I am your Lu
Claire’s POVSomething was changing in Gideon’s mind.After I saw the way he looked at me in the garden, he spoke the words I never expected him to be speaking. You matter to me. Those four words made me feel restless as those words kept repeating in my mind after I walked away.The way he spoke to
He looked at me quickly and blushed. “No! I can do it myself.”“I know you can.” I said gently with a calm voice. I didn’t pull my hand back. “But sometimes, it's okay to let people take care of you.”The words hung in the air between us. He looked at me thoughtfully as if he was torn between longin
Gideon’s POVAt night the house has gone quiet again.Dinner ended a while ago now the silence was starting to eat me and made me feel suffocating. I remained in my office with the door shut, though it did little to block out the thoughts chasing themselves through my head.The dinner time kept on r







