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
He looked straight at me as I entered, face unreadable, jaw squared like he was bracing for impact. His arms dangled loose at his sides, but the muscles were tensed, ready.I got two steps in before it hit me. Not the sight, but the smell.The wolf inside me went rigid. I stopped so hard my left foo
EvelynHe just stood there, hands in his pockets, looking past me at the night. “If he does, he hasn’t objected,” Levi said. “I’m accountable for my own actions.”That wasn’t a yes, but it wasn’t a no either. I wanted to throttle him. “Don’t dodge me,” I growled. “If you’re operating off the leash,
SofiaShe snapped back to Ava, the transition so smooth it was like she’d never stopped being gentle. “Maya’s going to be fine,” she purred, thumb stroking Ava’s hoodie. “Her body just needs time to heal. With the way they’re taking care of her here, she’ll be running laps around the rest of us by C
She looked past me, toward the window, like she was mentally cataloguing all the exits again.She took a while, but when she spoke, it was so direct it made me flinch.“Are you a wolf?” she asked.I blinked. I’d planned to keep it vague, tell her only what was safe, but I saw then it would be pointl







