로그인The 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
In fact, now, I was starting to get well and truly annoyed with her. I had tried being nice, but that hadn’t worked. Perhaps a firmer hand needed to be given, for her to finally understand I just didn’t want her. “Princess, I insist that you leave my room at once.” “I’m not nervous,” she said. “I’
“Excuse the intrusion, Sir,” Xavier said, dipping his head around the corner of the doorway. “We have an honored guest.” “A guest?” Gideon asked. He dropped the conversation to look at Xavier, and I allowed myself a breath of relief. “Yes. Alpha Ivan has crossed the border,” Xavier said. “He wan
Gideon’s POVClaire wasn’t as enthusiastic about the celebratory banquet as I’d hoped that she would be, but she did still agree. So I was determined to see that the event was a success, and that Claire would be pleasantly delighted by the event and its turnout.More than anything, I wanted her to f
Claire’s POVIf I really wanted Gideon’s help, and I did, then I knew I needed to sit down with him and actually talk about what was going on. Rather than run away, as I have been doing, I needed to sit with him and talk these things through, to tell him about Ivan’s suspicions about what happened t







