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
EvelynThe question hung in the air between us. Both Alphas watched me, waiting for my decision. Robin's expression was carefully neutral, but I could see the tension in his shoulders. He wanted me safe, wanted me back in Wood Pack territory where he could protect me.Damon sat across from me, his j
His jaw tightened visibly. "She talks about you constantly. 'Dr. Graham showed me this plant. Dr. Graham says this flower can stop bleeding.'" He mimicked Ava's high voice with surprising accuracy. "Three days and she's attached to you like you've been here her whole life."Because I have been, you
No one noticed Susan—who was the academically average, and lesser—watching from doorways, memorizing every formula, every technique, every scholarly success, determined to find a way to matter.No one noticed Susan watching from doorways, memorizing every movement, every expression, every success.*
EvelynRobins was pacing beside the car, checking his watch for the third time in five minutes. When he saw me approaching, he stopped mid-step. Stared."Christ," he breathed. "I knew you were going to alter your appearance, but..." He shook his head, like he was trying to clear it. "For a second th







