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
"What's your point?"He leaned against the counter. "There's something you should see while we wait.""Twenty-seven minutes," Marina corrected, then looked apologetic for speaking."Go see her," Robin said.I laughed. "Why would I waste my time?""Because you're going to burn out at this rate," Robi
Catherine"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!"Damon had Hilda pinned to the ground ten feet from where she'd been kneeling. His hands gripped her shoulders, face contorted with rage.I blinked, stunned. How the hell had Damon found us? We were miles from the main pack buildings, at the farthest edge of t
I made my way to the border, following the path I'd taken with Ava when we'd fled. It felt like years ago instead of days. Everything had changed. Damon was dead. Susan was dead. Catherine was gone. The children were back.And I was free.At the tree line, I stopped and looked back one more time. Th
I exchanged a look with Frost. His face gave away nothing, as usual, but I caught the slight tightening around his eyes. He disapproved. He always disapproved.The silence stretched until Hilda looked up."I get it," she said, her voice flat. "Just tell me what I need to do."I opened my mouth, but







