Se connecterAnd 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
This was different from the other episodes. Worse. My right leg was trying to bend backward at the knee like a wolf's hind leg while my left stayed human but grew three inches longer. My ribs pushed outward on one side, creating a lopsided barrel chest, while the other side caved inward until the bo
EvelynStep back. Your breath stinks.The crowd sucked in air. All of them. That sound when fifty people forget how to breathe at the same time. Some covered their mouths. Some just stared. I looked around at their faces—the woman with the bloody hands had actually stopped dragging them across concr
Evelyn"Take me to them now."I wasn't here for small talk. Not for pleasantries about the drive or questions about Wood Pack. Every second we wasted standing in this parking lot was another second Ava stayed—no. I wouldn't think that word. If there was even the slightest chance I could save my daug
Her voice was flat, certain. She turned back to me. "It can't be a coincidence. We're being punished. If the Luna looks like that, it has to—""No." I cut her off. "Stop it."I moved to the side and leaned against the wall, suddenly exhausted. "This has nothing to do with curses or punishment.""How