LOGINAnd every single person was walking.Everyone. The men from my truck, from all the trucks, and beyond them more, spilling out of side streets and doorways, hundreds, then more than I could count, every one of them moving the same way at the same slow even pace toward the blue light, and not one of t
SofiaThe thing nobody tells you about stowing away in the back of a wolf's supply truck is that wolves do not believe in shock absorbers.I'd been folded between a crate that smelled like gun oil and a stack of canvas duffels for going on four hours, knees up under my chin, one hand knotted around
AvaI came back into my own body the way you come up from under cold water. All at once, lungs grabbing, except the water was me, and I'd been drowning in myself longer than I knew.For a second there was no up. Too much arrived at once. After the white nothing of the place with Catherine, the world
"Alexander."My name, in the low voice, gone thin at the edges now. A command. Come. Hold the vessel. Put your hands on it and hold it still.The wall in my chest told my feet to move. A year of habit told them to move. I took one step up toward the seat. My body did it the way my body did everythin
AlexanderI had spent my whole life learning to read the exact moment a thing breaks, and the goddess wearing my bride was beginning to break, and I could not turn my head to look at her.That was the cruelty of the wall she'd built in me. It let me see everything and touch nothing. I stood where sh
"Ava." I said it out loud, to a concrete wall, and it came apart in my mouth. "I've got you. I'm here. I've got you, baby. I've got you."She couldn't hear the words. She never could. But she could feel a hand close around her in the dark, the way I'd once felt hers close around me from a hundred mi
LeviThe helicopters were flying in a pattern now. Methodical sweeps, overlapping coverage, the kind of precision that meant military training and expensive equipment."They're using thermal," Falco said, watching through his binoculars. "See how they're moving? Grid search with infrared imaging.""
EvelynThe first thing I noticed was the smell. Wood. Old wood, like the kind you find in cabins that have been standing for decades. Cedar, maybe. Something clean and sharp that cut through the fog in my head.The second thing was the ache in my shoulders.I tried to move and discovered why they hu
LeviThe question hung in the air between us.Sofia. The answer was Sofia, maybe three weeks ago. I'd fucked her hard, bent her over and fucked her pussy while I thought about someone else entirely. About the girl sitting on top of me now.I couldn't say that."It's been a while," I said.She kept s
Hilda"The wound looks much better," Alexander said, studying the bandage on my side. "Lyra did excellent work."I was dressed and standing by the window, looking out at the sprawling compound below. From this height, I could see the full scope of the Northern Pack's territory—gardens, training grou







