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
"I'm sorry," I said again, desperation creeping into my voice. "Please, Evelyn—I didn't—""Shut up." Her voice was soft but sharp. "You're pathetic. Why are you begging if you don't even know what you're apologizing for? Why are you really here?"She shook her head, something close to disgust crossi
I looked at him. "Someone is dead already.""You didn't kill him," Levi countered. "If there's anyone to blame, it's Alpha dimwit. He let his pride get the better of him. But look..."I saw Hilda stepping out of the debris almost unscathed except for a mangled tattooed arm. But right before my eyes,
DamonThe hallway seemed endless. Every step made my body ache, muscles still knitting themselves back together beneath my skin. My right eye throbbed against the empty socket, phantom pain from something that wasn't there anymore. The bandage covering half my face felt too tight, too present.Elena
DamonBirds. That's what pulled me from sleep. Not the harsh crow of ravens or the territorial screech of hawks, but actual songbirds. Cheerful little things chirping away like the world hadn't gone to hell yesterday.Sunlight streamed through the window, warm on my face. For a second—just one stupi







