FAZER 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
The second application of whiskey had stopped foaming. The poison was still there, deeper in the wound, but the alcohol had done what it could. Now for the hard part.I stood up and grabbed the oil lamp we'd lit earlier. Carefully, I opened the glass frame."You're really good at hide and seek," I s
Heyyy it's literally 3am here and I just woke up from a nightmare. Can't get back to sleep so I figured I'd work on this chapter instead. What time is it where you're reading this? Sometimes I wonder if anyone else is up at these weird hours reading while the rest of the world is asleep. Anyway, bac
"Susan?"Damon's voice called through my thoughts. "Are you okay? Why are you smiling?"I shook my head, then regained composure as I prepared to tell Damon what Evelyn had done, arranging my expression for maximum impact."Margaret caught Dr. Graham slipping a toxic substance into my doses," I bega
EvelynThe words hung in the air. Ava's cheerful announcement—"I heard Grandma is back!"—had created this strange pause where all the adults suddenly found very important things to look at that weren't each other."Well," Damon said finally, his voice carefully neutral. "I suppose we should head bac







