“I reminded her she had selected the day I asked for her hand in marriage as our meeting,” he snarls at me. “Foolishly, I thought that would mean something. Just as you foolishly believe she was not leaving us for a long, long time before she strode out the doors. Who saw her?”“You.” I struggle to
“Cousin!” Corwyn smiles at me. “I’ve prepared everything for Uncle Alden’s arrival. I thought he might like some privacy.”As I would have, I think to myself. My first scraps of information about Mother in three months will come with an audience.I shake the thought away as soon as I have it. Tansy
XanderVedran lunges at my flank, and I whip out of the way before he can sink his teeth into my skin. He’s silent, as always, a pale ghost against the sand of the training area. I dart left, then right, aiming to scrape a blunted claw over his underbelly. My pulse pounds. Impulses fire into actions
“No.”Kieran stares at me like he can pry the answers he’s looking for out of my skull. I stare dully back at him. We’ll never be close, that’s more than clear. But at least I don’t have to wear his frustration with how incomprehensible I am to him as a bruise for the rest of my Goddess-damned life.
Finn“Is that so?” Lady Marita, a visiting noblewoman from Snowcrest Canyon, leans forward over our private dining table, pressing her breasts forward in her gown.“It is.” I glance at her miles of pale cleavage then away. Somehow, all I can think is that she should really be careful—any more leanin
A military power. Alpha Iraj wastes no opportunity to show off that the pack’s ancestral wind powers are staggeringly strong in him and that he has hand-picked his army for the same. Of course, his allyship is the first Corwyn would seek. No matter how often I suggest this might not come to all-out