LOGINEvelyn“Careful!”I can’t help the word as it tumbles out of my mouth when Emma swings her legs over the edge of her bed. She stares at me like I’ve lost my mind.“As potentially over-protective as your friend and queen is being,” Dr. Zorinski says to Emma, “you really do need to take it easy. Don’t
EvelynThere are several empty cells between the converted dungeon hospital wing and the cell where Lucas sits. Max shared that he’s been eating and drinking everything they bring him, but otherwise Lucas hasn’t been speaking.I observe him for a minute, unable to make him out very well in the dim d
EvelynI hold back my own excited tears as I approach the dungeon a few days later. Only about half the prisoners provided us with their names, and I’m hoping what we do today changes that.Not because I need their names. Because them providing it is a symbol of growing trust.I open the dungeon doo
EvelynAlexander asked me later if leaving the dungeon the second the idea came to me was partially an excuse to get out of there before seeing Lucas in the very last cell.Maybe it was.But that doesn’t change the fact that my idea is a good one.I pull Alexander into his nearby office to talk thro
And I have work to do.I reach for the doorknob myself, ignoring the lingering fear as I force myself down step after step into the dungeon.I’m comforted by the shutting of the door and Alexander’s footsteps behind me.I might still be scared, but I’m not alone.I walk down the stone steps illumina
Evelyn“Okay,” I say as Alexander and I walk down the halls of the main palace toward the dungeons. “Remind me who all is in the dungeons right now.”Alexander takes a heavy breath as if the list is long. “There’s a few dozen rebel werewolves who willingly surrendered to us the first time I rescued
I approach it cautiously, wading into its essence, like a thick mud of energy, tangled up inside me.Then I feel him. Alexander.It’s our mate bond. The one that only forms once the mates bed each other. Which is why I never had this with Lucas.I lean into the bond a bit, wondering if whatever the
Alexander“No,” I answer plainly. “And sit the fuck down.”Marcel stands in front of me, trying to hide his wincing every time he breathes. He sits down carefully in the chair across from me in my study. I can only imagine how many bandages are tied around his abdomen underneath his fresh set of clo
“After what you did to me,” I tell her, “it will be hard for me to trust you. I acknowledge that you are my Luna, but I’d like to step into this relationship slowly. You may move into the King’s Palace, but I’d like to start you in your own separate room for now.”She nods again, eyes back on the gr
AlexanderI’m in my office, taking a breath and trying to collect myself before I go join Evelyn. We’ve still been eating dinner together in my sitting room every evening, even though I’ve told her we could eat in her room if she wanted.I didn’t have it in me to offer that we eat separately. I’m to







