LOGINEvelynAs Alexander and I finally take one step after another down the hallway toward our Luna Ceremony, I’m overcome with emotion.This isn’t my first Luna Ceremony. That one was interrupted by Lucas leaving me for my best friend who he believed at the time was carrying his pup. That day ended with
“What?” he asks.I glance over my shoulder at my mom and Emma. They nod me on encouragingly.“We had an idea,” I tell him.He cocks his head playfully. “I thought it was David’s idea.”I smile. “Not the werewolf residence in the Royal City,” I clarify. Alexander responded quite neutrally to the conc
Evelyn“I think it’s a marvelous idea,” I say, only half-examining myself in the mirror. Mostly, I’m watching Emma’s face as she applies my makeup.“It’s a bold one,” she concedes.“I like it, too,” Mom says from behind me where she’s putting wildflowers in my braided hair.“Really?” Emma and I say
Evelyn“I want to talk about something embarrassing and traumatic,” I say when I find David in the archives.He doesn’t look up from his book. “Your sense of humor?” he teases.His joke does its job, and I smile. He looks up then, making sure his words had their intended effect. Our gazes meet, and
EvelynWhen I wake up the next morning, I want to cry at the sight of Alexander sleeping peacefully next to me. Any amount of time spent thinking I might never see him again is too much, and I’m still just so relieved I didn’t die falling off that cliff.That Lucas didn’t kill me for trying to escap
“A brace!” I cheer enthusiastically. “That’s so much better than the cast.”I turn toward Alexander, grinning. He looks equally as happy for me. Then his look turns reverent.“This is what we do,” he tells me. “Our mate bond heals us, and I know it will heal our kingdom, too. That’s why we should ha
A good person would tell her she doesn’t have a chance with me. But something tells me not to say anything. Not yet.“Flirting with my shikra?” Alexander asks as he passes by us, sweat running down the front and back of his shirt from his first sparring session. He doesn’t wait for an answer, moving
EvelynEven though I’m the one who suggested returning to the training grounds, part of me is disappointed when that’s exactly where Alexander leads me the next morning. I’m already familiar with this part of the palace, and I was hoping to be brought somewhere new that might inform my next escape p
AlexanderTruth be told, I’d already been planning to take Evelyn to this banquet long before she asked to be let out of my room from time to time. In fact, the only reason I planned the damn banquet was because I had found her, someone who can keep my wolf at bay.We used to have these banquets ann
Alexander chuckles as our faces approach each other, our noses nuzzling in a daring dance. In all the punishments he’s given me over the past few days, they’ve all been the same: his face between my legs.It’s not a complaint.But there’s definitely something about his face so close to mine that fee







