LOGINIvara is crazy!!! Ahhhhh what's sort of wicked thought crossed her mind???
Ivara's POV“What is wrong with you?” I scowled, pushing him slightly.Xlynor remained nonchalant, eyes still half-closed. “Why are you so scared and panicking? We're in a room. So what if it's the palace? Are you going to be killed if you're seen here?” he scoffed. “Like we don't do worse.”My eyes widened at that sentence. “I don’t do anything with you.”He tilted his head toward me, one eye cracking open, and the smirk that lived at the corner of his mouth made a brief appearance.I rolled my eyes so hard it almost hurt.“Quit panicking,” he said, eyes closing again. “No one has to know. It'll just be one of our secrets.”I rolled my eyes again. “You make it sound like we have loads of secrets.”“Oh yes we do.” He settled deeper into stillness. “And we'll have more. You just have to keep your mouth shut.”I stared at him, eyes wide, but he looked completely, serenely unbothered. Totally normal. What the fuck? I had said it countless times that this man was crazy but still he always
Ivara's POVI tried to sit up and move away, but Xlynor's right arm—which had ended up beneath me—wrapped around my waist and pulled me back firmly against him. The kind of firmness that had no business existing in someone in his current state.“Hey—”“You can stay,” he murmured, eyes still closed.I was impossibly close to him, unable to move with his arm holding me in place. “I… I didn't ask to stay.”“I’m cold and you have my coat. It's the least you can do.” He paused. “Unless you'd like to be responsible for my death. An easy path to a miserable long life.”“Don't bring up the coat. You literally drenched me in the first place, so you cannot ask for warmth using that. And no, you're not going to die,” I retorted.“I can choose to die so you live with the guilt and aftermath. Forever regretting refusing to stay with me,” he whispered.I blinked. This twisted man! “That is not a nice thing to say. You're really sick in the head.” I scowled.“Maybe I should just die already. I hope
Ivara's POVThe impact drove the air from my lungs. “No, no, no!” I shouted, trying to grab his shoulders to steady us, but I failed woefully. My hands passed straight through his shoulders as if he were made of smoke. “Xlynor!”I braced for the hard slam of stone.It never came.Instead, reality detonated around us… a pressure change so sudden it was like being inside a sound. Gravity seemed to lose all meaning around Xlynor. Even time appeared to slow.For one fractured heartbeat, I saw the warehouse district, the dusty streetlamps and the strip of night sky littered with stars, then everything vanished.The next instant, we were inside a burning cathedral, flames licking the vaulted ceiling, stained glass shattering in slow motion around us as we fell through it—I felt the heat searing the ends of my hair, the sharp scent of smoke and melting wax flooding my nose and then it tore away.The night sky returned, though the warehouse district was gone. I felt cold wind howling and stea
Ivara's POVThe second bottle went over my head before I could move, and cold water ran down my neck, soaking through my already-damp shirt.“Stop—” I gasped, moving back. “Have you lost your mind?! Stop it!”Xlynor didn’t listen. He tossed the empty bottle aside, opened the third, then lifted it again. Completely unconcerned that I was soaked.“Are you crazy?!” I slapped it away hard, and it hit the ground and rolled. “What is the meaning of that?”He ignored me and reached into the trunk for another bottle—but this time he drank it himself.I stopped and watched him gulp everything like he was parched. Only then did I realize that I'd never seen him eat or drink anything. Not once.He dropped the empty bottle and braced both hands on the car. As I stared at him, I noticed what I'd been too distracted to see before. He looked distressed and was growing more irritated by the second.He straightened, then paced back and forth along the side of the car, one hand working at his collar li
Ivara's POVI stood in the empty road and stared at the space where Isagi had been.What was that just now? Was Isagi trying to play me?He'd choked me. He'd literally put his hands around my throat and squeezed, demanding answers I didn't have, and then walked it back like it hadn't happened — like I'd imagined the whole thing.Maybe I had really made it up. I raised my arm and stared at my bruised wrist. Well, I certainly hadn't caused this injury, so why the hell was he twisting his words? And now he was gone, leaving me with questions, lodged in my chest like something swallowed wrong.“Arghh!” I yanked at my hair in frustration.Was I going crazy? No way. Was I different? Had I done something that made me seem different? I turned it over from every angle and came up with nothing. But Isagi had said it with such certainty that it had me doubting myself. Was there really a reason Xlynor kept me around? I couldn’t think of one. I was basically useless to him.“Gosh.” I shook my head
Ivara's POVJust when the edges of my vision started to blur, Isagi huffed and released me.I stumbled sideways and grabbed the car with both hands, coughing so hard my throat burned. Air scraped back into my lungs in painful gasps while my hands trembled as I rubbed the raw skin of my neck.“I’m asking nicely, Ivara,” Isagi's cold voice came from behind me. “Xlynor and I might not be on good terms, but that doesn’t mean I’ll sit back while he gets hurt or while you ruin him. You’re taking it far. I do not have a problem with whatever you did to yourself. I just want to know what it is you’re up to.”I stared at him, still trying to catch my breath. “Do I look—” I coughed again, pressing the back of my hand to my mouth. “Do I look like I want to be in Dark Hound? As a slave?!” My voice cracked. “I was auctioned against my will, goddamnit! I have no idea what you’re talking about or why you’re trying to kill me!” I kept rubbing my neck. “Do I even look like I can kill Xlynor or hurt hi
Xlynor’s POV “You know how much I hate repeating myself, Aaron,” I muttered, my gaze fixed outside the window. “You and I both know this isn’t everything you stole.”“My Lord, please forgive me. I wasn’t in the right state of mind. I needed to sort my mother's bill and it was my only option. Pleas
IVARANo, this shouldn't be happening. Not after everything I went through just to escape.“Father!” I yelled, struggling with the guards who were trying to rip my clothes off me. Of course, they'd obey him, the almighty Gamma.Father stopped in his tracks, then spun around. Even the guards paused.
IVARA“What makes you think you should eat that when you didn’t spend a dime on it?”“You're useless!”“You should be dead! I blame Loyd for bringing this crap into our world!”“Look around, does anyone here live without a wolf? Even the Omegas are above you!” My stepmother, Maybelline’s insults an
IVARA What had just happened? One second, I was waiting for Adrian in the park, the next? I was here, half-conscious in some confinement.Confinement? A fvcking confinement! My eyes widened. What?I dragged myself up, my legs wobbling as the room spun around.“No, no.” I whispered, I couldn't poss







