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
Evelyn"Miss Hilda is wrong."Ava looked up at me with those wide eyes, confusion mixing with hope. Like maybe, for once, an adult might tell her something different than what she'd been taught.I finished cleaning the cut on her lip, movements precise despite the fury burning in my chest. Five year
"Better?""Sure."I handed her the tea. She took it but didn't drink."You need to eat," I said, gesturing to the toast."I know what I need.""Susan, please. I'm trying to—""To what? Make amends? Take care of me?" Her voice was bitter. "You think bringing me breakfast fixes what you did?""No. I k
EvelynTwo kids were down on the playground, their small forms crumpled near the swings in a way that made my stomach clench. I was already moving toward them before I fully processed what I was seeing, my medical bag clutched in one hand.Pack members had gathered in a loose circle around the child
"Cum for me," he slurred against my neck, his breath hot on my skin. "Wanna feel you. Like before."The words shouldn't have affected me. They were drunk ramblings from a man who'd thrown me away. But combined with the relentless pressure of his cock, the circles his fingers traced on my clit, the w







