MasukHe smiled, something kind but knowing behind it. “The goddess does not wait for readiness, child. She waits for courage.”I exhaled slowly, then reached out.The moment my fingers brushed the crystal, the world tilted.Light bloomed from within it, flooding the room in silver. I gasped, stumbling ba
Ellie POVIt was raining again.The kind of steady, unhurried rain that made everything in Moonstone shimmer. The packhouse windows were blurred with it, the world chilled and greyed out.I’d always loved the sound of rain. It was soft and rhythmic, like a symphony, but lately it only made me uneasy
When the twins finally went down for the night, I joined them on the couch. Rae nudged Cassian with her shoulder. “You Moonstone men are all the same,” she said. “Broody, mysterious, heroic in a way that makes me suspicious.”Cassian chuckled. “And yet you seem to like us anyway.”She smirked. “Mayb
Ellie POVThe leaves were beginning to change colors, and the morning air carried a pleasant chill. It was fal,l and the twins seemed to love it. I took them for walks whenever I could, letting them nap in the stroller under the filtered sunlight while I breathed in pine and damp earth.It had been
Maybe it had been the stress of trying to deny the pull between them that had made him the way he was with her?He didn’t know what to do with that realization. Sympathy wasn’t something he’d ever had to practice with Nolan.He poured another drink and stared at the water, but it did nothing to dull
Third person POVLance hadn’t been able to sit still since the call.The sun had sunk low, casting long shadows across the desk of the ship. He paced the length of the room, running a hand through his hair, then stopping abruptly only to start again.Nolan’s words echoed like a pulse in his mind—ste







