LOGINTwice, the scar flared up without warning, hot as a brand. It hurt like hell, just as the healer—Juniper, she said her name was—had warned. But Nyx got stronger every day.On the sixth morning, the door flew open again, and a girl about my age bounced up the steps. She had a sunburned nose and looke
Mira’s POVAfter so many nights shaking in the sand, it took me a while to understand what the feeling of warmth even was. I was laying in a narrow bed built into the back wall of a camper, under a heavy wool blanket woven in faded reds and oranges. Sunlight leaked in around a curtain made out of an
It shattered against the stones. Blood splashed across the floor and up the front of her white coat.Seraphine shrieked and leapt to her feet.“Fine,” she spat. “Starve, then. Rot down here for an animal who is never coming back for you.”She snatched up the contract and stormed out.I let my head d
Damon’s POVThe guard came down with his lantern once a day—at least, I was pretty certain it was once per day based on the timing and my own thirst, although I had no way to see the sky—to make sure I was still breathing. I counted his visits for a while. After the third, I stopped bothering. I was
Under the table, I touched my side, and my fingers came away red. The wounds in my shoulder and leg were barely scabbed over, and the one in my side still wasn’t closing at all. The skin around it was even hotter than the rest of me, and I was burning up with a fever, shivering in a diner that had t
Mira’s POVSometime after midnight, the bus pulled into the gravel lot of a diner with a buzzing neon sign. It was just off the highway, the buzz of cars and trucks whizzing past audible from the parking lot.“Twenty minutes, folks,” the driver called out.I followed everyone else off of the bus, on
Mira's POVAlyssa looked at the empty chair across from me. The one with no coat on it, no second mug, no sign that anyone had been sitting there or was going to."He's not here yet," I said."Oh." She drew the word out. "He's running late?"“Yeah, the traffic,” I said too quickly. I tucked a strand
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







