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
When the syringe was empty, I pulled it out and stepped back.Yrsa held her neck, glaring at me with pure hatred. "Þú veist ekki hvað þú hefur gert! Þú hefur drepið okkur bæði!" ("You don't know what you've done! You've killed us both!")She continued cursing, hurling every insult she could think of
"I'm going away," Hilda said suddenly.The words caught me off guard. I looked up sharply. "What?"She wasn't meeting my eyes anymore. "You're finally here. Ava doesn't need me anymore."I shook my head. "When Ava wakes up, she'll ask for you. What am I supposed to say?"Hilda's expression softened
EvelynIt had been a week since Mother was gone. A week since Damon's death. Since Susan's. The children were back, but some of them were still unconscious. Their bodies had suffered real damage and needed time to heal.Same thing for Ava.She was still unconscious.I pulled the chair closer to her
I was on my knees in his cab when he grabbed my hair."That's it, you little whore. Take it all."He shoved my head down, forcing his cock deeper. I gagged and tried to pull back, but his grip tightened. Panic set in when I couldn't breathe. I bit down hard.Dale screamed and let go, blood dripping







