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
RobinThe first sound I heard was the wet thud of fist hitting flesh. Then another. And another.I was heading to the holding cells with Elena and two guards trailing behind.The sounds got louder as we got closer—steady, relentless. A hard blow, a grunt, a pause, then another blow. No screams. Just
Before I could answer, the infirmary door swung open. A tall, broad-shouldered man with dark hair streaked with silver strode in, his presence immediately filling the room. Every wolf in sight straightened, eyes lowering slightly in deference.Alpha Robin.He scanned the room, his gaze landing on me
DamonMy finger had worn a groove in the map. Somewhere in these mountains, these forests—somewhere in all this goddamn territory—Ava was out there. Without me.I traced the same path again. Eastern quadrant. River crossing. The old hunting trails. My eyes burned from lack of sleep, the lines on the
Yet for all that success, my bed remained cold. My chosen mates—political alliances that produced no children—had come and gone. The true mate bond had eluded me.Perhaps that explained why certain pack members affected me more deeply than they should. Why Evelyn's quiet determination had drawn me i







