“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
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.