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
Evelyn"She's not even your child."The words hit the playground like a bomb. Conversations stopped. Parents who'd been gathering to watch the commotion suddenly had opinions. Loud ones."What happened here?""Did she really hit Tommy?""A visiting wolf struck a pack child?""Where was the supervisi
DamonThe conference room felt smaller with Robin in it. Two Alphas in one space always did that. I'd dismissed everyone else after the courtyard mess, but Ava had somehow slipped in when Cole was herding the crowd away. She sat in the corner chair, small legs swinging, dirt still smudged on her tor
Evelyn"My Luna," he growled against my mouth. "Mine."His weight pressed me into the mattress, solid and real. Five years of hatred collided with five years of emptiness. My body responded to him without my permission, arching upward despite everything my mind screamed.I should push him away. I sh
The crowd erupted again, some shocked by Margaret's outburst, others nodding agreement. The division was clear—some pack members had clearly heard Damon's doubts about Ava's parentage before."That doesn't matter," Cole said firmly. "She's under pack protection.""Protection?" Margaret laughed bitte







