MasukAnd 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 gestured, and servers appeared from doorways I hadn't even noticed. They moved efficiently, placing plates and filling glasses with what looked like wine.I wasn't hungry. Couldn't imagine eating anything in this place, at this table, with my daughter sitting there like a stranger.But I picked u
"Interesting woman," he said, pulling his hand back without offense. "Most people would have taken the help."He turned back to Garrett, and I saw something shift in his expression. The gentleness was still there, but somehow, it had turned cold in seconds."Tell me about the white wolf," he said.G
Hilda"The white wolf is no mere bloodline."The eldest's voice carried across the stone chamber, each word sharp as a blade. I watched from my position against the wall, wrists still burning from the cuffs they'd finally removed."She is the Moon Goddess reborn. Walking among us in flesh."Garrett
Instead, she smiled back at him. Small, serene, completely at peace."What did you just say?" I managed to get out.Alexander turned to me, eyebrows raised like he was surprised by my reaction. "I said I'm grateful she chose me.""Chose you for what?""Why, as her mate, of course."The dining room w







