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
I glared at him, but he ignored the lot of us.The rest of the meal was eaten in silence. Justin and Daphne left first. Then Gideon, after ruffling Leo’s hair.When Leo and I were alone, Leo sheepishly looked away from me.“I’m sorry I’ve been mean to you,” he said. “I didn’t mean anything by it.”“
Gideon’s POVI was a fool for agreeing to check the picture, but Leo had rekindled a kind of hope inside of me.There was so much evidence to the contrary, but what if Raven really was Claire. If I could have her back and fix some of the mistakes of the past… Even if she was in love with Ivan now, i
Claire’s POVWith my arm around his, Ivan led me on a small walk around the pack house building, a place that had come to be my home. Tonight was the anniversary of the day I officially joined the Night Mountain Pack, which Ivan and I typically quietly celebrated in a way similar to this. A glass of
“No,” Leo said. He looked up at me again. “Nova… how much do you know about your mom before she came here to this pack?”That was a weird question. Everyone was acting strangely today, I guessed.“Not a lot,” I said. “She doesn’t like to talk about it. But I’ve been here since I was baby.”Leo humme







