They don’t know.None of them sees it yet, the silent truth unraveling beneath their feet like a buried serpent. Every step they take, every whisper cloaked in strategy, only tightens the noose I’ve strung around their necks. And they smile through it all, believing themselves wise.With his celesti
The only ones who knew of its location were Gaia’s line and her sworn protectors.Lorna’s grandmother was one of them, and her mother was, too. Now it falls to her, though she barely knows the weight she carries.Lucifer warned us. The vampires and demons are stirring, desperate to unseal the Underw
There are a few tasks the gods bestow upon me that I treasure more than this, such as traveling beside the wolves. Their souls are raw, honest, and wild. They remind me of the earliest breath of creation, when the earth still echoed with the voice of Gaia and every creature moved to the rhythm of th
I could not believe the sheer, blinding stupidity of my human. Tristan. My so-called other half.He knew. He knew what our mate had endured. He knew she was only hiding in that sanctuary because she believed she could help our sister and the twins. That was Isla’s haven, her only rule: stay quiet, s
Where are you?Coming now, my Alpha.I turned back to him. “Your Majesty—”“Tristan,” he interrupted gently.“Tristan,” I corrected, nodding. “You’ve come for news of your sister, Isla.”“Yes,” he answered. There was fear in his voice, thick and raw. “Was she brought here? Are she and her pups safe?
I waited in my office with Katia, Mark, Talon, Lorn, and Selene. The air felt thick, tense with the weight of the truth we were about to deliver. I sat behind my desk, absently tracing the grain of the polished mahogany as if I could find comfort in something so solid. But comfort was far from us no