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
EvelynAlexander sat.Just like that. A man who had built an empire on violence and pride, a man who had never bowed to anyone in his life, folded into his seat like a scolded child. The air in the room didn’t just feel heavy; it felt occupied, like the oxygen had been replaced by something thicker,
RobinIn all these years, I hadn't stepped foot in Moon Pack. Not once.Sure, I'd sent men to maintain the alliance. Levi went in my place sometimes. Easy to blame it on my health—wheelchair-bound Alpha doesn't travel well. Good excuse. Damn good one, actually.But the real reason I avoided this pla
Evelyn“It’s a pleasure to finally meet you, Evelyn.”I didn’t move. I couldn’t. The sweat was a cold, thin film on my brow, stinging my eyes, but I didn’t dare reach up to wipe it. The pressure in the room was a physical weight, like the atmosphere had tripled in density, pinning me to the floor. I
SofiaI couldn't watch Levi stand outside that conference room anymore.He'd been staring at the doors for five minutes, maybe longer. Just staring. Like if he looks long enough they'll open and tell him Ava's fine, everything's fine, go home.Robin had wheeled himself inside ten minutes ago, Cole f







