LOGIN“I just—” I shook my head, because the words wouldn’t arrange themselves. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”She watched me, eyes bright, mouth twisted in a half-smile that made her look meaner than usual. “Is it the sex?” she asked, voice loud enough to echo off the cinderblocks. “Is he th
SofiaThe only light in the room came from the IV monitor by the window. Someone had tilted the blinds half-open, so the gray morning bled through in stripes and settled over everything: Maya’s hospital bed, the heap of Levi’s body on the floor, Hilda hunched over Levi’s phone at the desk, and me, s
EvelynRobin answered before the second ring. “What do you need?”I smiled, just a little, at the lack of preamble.“I need mercs,” I said. “Today.”He didn’t laugh. Didn’t ask if it was a joke or a cry for help. “How many?”I looked out the window, did the math. The main house, the lab, Thomas’s co
But the stories always ended the same way: the white wolf either killed every hunter in a hundred-mile radius, or died breeding a new pack into the ground.I glanced at Thomas, at the places where Ava’s claws had split him. “You know what this means, don’t you.”He nodded, then shook his head. “You
EvelynThomas was sitting on the island, shirtless, both feet dangling off the side like a bored lifeguard. He held a bloody dish towel pressed to his chest.I pulled the light in closer, flicked on the under-cabinet LEDs, and started unwrapping the bandage.He didn’t react, not even when I caught a
EvelynThe wolf exploded off the patio, fur and teeth and weight enough to topple a linebacker. Thomas caught it, just barely. His head cracked against the flagstone with a dull, flat thud I felt in the backs of my own teeth.He’d gotten his forearms up in time. The jaws closed on his sleeve, tearin







