로그인"Because you helped me," Kane said. "So I help you. That's the whole of it."He'd said the same thing on the run, the night I asked why a stranger would carry my sister through the dark. You helped me, so I help you. Plain as that. He believed it, too. I could hear that he did.I let it stay simple,
For once, the dream let me go.It started the way it always did, the blood and the warm and my mother going white on the bed. But somewhere in the middle of it the cold turned around. A pair of arms came into the dark and closed over me, and a voice I half-knew said I was safe, said it again and aga
I didn't sleep.Every time I shut my eyes I was back behind that screen, and there she was, risen out of the bathwater with the lamplight on her wet skin and that ruined back turned toward me. I'd had no right to look. I'd looked anyway, and now the picture of her wouldn't let me be.You're done for
Kane didn't rise to his mother's teasing."It's not an invitation," he said. "It's protection. Victor isn't a man who loses a thing and lets it stay lost. He'll come for them. Here, behind my walls and my warriors, he can't."The warmth I'd let myself feel a moment ago cooled into something steadier
I'd forgotten what a hot bath felt like.By the time we reached the alpha house I was barely on my feet, and the place erupted into a soft, fussing chaos. Servants pulling out linens. An old woman named Marta clucking that the both of us needed scrubbing and clean clothes before we did one more thin
"Watch your mouth, Soren."Kane didn't raise his voice. He didn't have to. The big man's jaw shut with a click."She's the reason I'm standing here," Kane said. "She pulled me out of the woods half-dead and put me back together with her own hands. You'll treat her and her sister like they're made of







