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
XanderWe arrive home in Tansy Beach only a day later. Father pushed the horses hard, changing them whenever we could purchase new ones. As soon as the carriage rolls to a halt, he throws the door open and leaps out.“There is much to prepare,” he says before I’ve even stood.Corwyn appears at his s
Something thuds. I’m starting to turn when I smell it—ink and some purple flower I can never remember the name of.Shit. My time is up.I scrape bubbles toward my chest a heartbeat before the bathroom door slams open with a thud that instantly explains the first noise I heard. Graceful as a herd of
FinnMy paws thud over dirt. Wind tousles my fur. Here, in my wolf form, I can almost hide from all the thoughts whirling through my head and lose myself in the simple, animal pleasures.Those simple, animal pleasures being exactly what fucked me in the first place.Still, my body hums with energy.
The lie twists like a knife in my chest. All my life, the three of us—four of us, truly, because Vedran’s contributions cannot be understated—have been a bulwark against the world. The continuation of the family name, the legacy, has been our heart. Mother destabilized the balance. Father’s unpredic
XanderI pry open the shutters on my room with my fingernails, wood splintering. My neck burns, as it has since I left Finn standing in the tent.Why did it have to be Finn? Why couldn’t it be some boy from this tiny waystation I would never see again, or some lesser noble I could intimidate into si