LOGINI told myself that all the way to the locker room.I turned the shower on cold. The locker room showers were the old kind, one tiled room with six heads along the wall and an open doorway out to the lockers, and at this hour I had it all to myself. I stripped down completely naked and stood under th
Mira’s POV“No combat skills,” Damon said, smiling, “and you went straight for the throat anyway.”I quickly released his wrists and sat up. “To be fair, you were trying to rile me up.”“Still. You’ve got the instinct and unprecedented strength.” He looked at me again with that faint flicker of surp
“Good,” he said after a bit, dropping his hands. “Now do it to me.”“I just did.”“You did it to my hands.” He squared up in front of me. “Hit me, Mira. Anywhere you like. I’ll block what I can.”I lifted my hands into the guard he’d shown me. I looked at his face, and then his chest, and then his f
Mira’s POVThe training center was empty at this hour. Everyone had gone home for the night, the campus quiet save for the occasional lingering worker or student.I supposed that Damon planned it that way. Didn’t want to see the newest addition to the vampire clan struggling to throw a single punch
“None taken,” I laughed.“Pinky promise, then?”I almost laughed. But I saw the trust in her eyes, and I just couldn’t make that promise. Not without telling her everything first.“Before we do that,” I said, “there’s something I need to tell you. And you can’t tell anyone. And you have to promise n
Mira’s POV“Can we talk?”I had one leg in my leggings and the other still bare when the words came from behind me. I turned around.Chloe was standing at the end of the row of lockers with her book against her chest and her bag hanging off one shoulder. The locker room was empty save for the two of
Mira's POVI picked up my bag and walked to the back row.Every eye in the room followed me. I could feel it — Piper and Alyssa's disbelief, Jason's frozen expression, the careful silence from the other wolves. I sat down in the empty chair next to Damon and set my notebook on the desk like nothing
Mira's POVHe looked away first.Damon Voss turned his gaze back to the front of the room like I was a wall he'd glanced at by accident. He then sat down in the back row with his two friends.I forced myself to look at my desk. My heart was doing something strange. Not fear. Something else. Somethin
Mira's POVTwo months ago, Jason Reed was my boyfriend. Now he had his tongue down my sister's throat, and she wanted me to watch.I stood in the doorway of the classroom, bag over one shoulder, and waited for the twist in my stomach to pass. It didn't.Jason saw me and pulled back, and the tips of
Mira's POV****Dream****I'm small.The walls are dirt and they go up too high and there's no roof, just a square of gray sky way up at the top. My knees are scraped. Something is crusted on my arm and I don't want to look at it.There's a boy in the pit with me. He's pale, even paler than me, and h







