Apologies but I went well over the word count so this chapter will likely be split for those reading the newer version. I have a question that I want to put to you all, as I’ve seen it mentioned a few times in comments... Do you want MM in this bond group? And if yes, then who? The only two I won’t consider are Knox and Dillon as their relationship is more brotherly.
** Knox’s POV **I don’t want to sit in the living room sipping coffee like my identity isn’t disappearing in front of me. I want to go out into the woods. Not far. Just enough that I can’t hear the low hum of voices anymore, just enough that the cool wind can hit my face and I can process all this
** Harper’s POV **My heat has finally passed. I’m equally happy and sad about it. Having that excuse to cut ourselves off from the world and just be together as a group had been wonderful.Now we have to face reality, though. If we want a safe future together, then we have to work for it.My skin n
** Harper’s POV **The bath water is almost too hot, but I don’t care. I feel like I need sanitising after being back in those tunnels, even if I hadn’t physically been there. I still feel like the musty scent is clinging to me.I tip my head back against the edge of the tub and let out a long breat
** Finley’s POV **I lean back on the coffee table and try not to say anything wildly inappropriate. Which, for me, is harder than it should be.There’s just something about being surrounded by this much tension. Like actual, legitimate tension, not just the kind I stir up for fun, that makes my bra
** Dillon’s POV **The room is too quiet.My bond group is struggling, although none of us will admit it. We’re exhausted after feeding Harper and Knox our energy. I had slept for about an hour after sharing my energy with them.Dot reminds me of a fly, but not in the annoying way. Just in the way s
** Harper’s POV **The air is damp and thick with the scent of rot and dirt and my heart skips a beat…Please no.Not here.I spin in place, my breath catching in my throat as the familiar, suffocating walls of the tunnels close in. Water drips somewhere in the distance. The floor beneath my bare fe