LOGINAnd yet here we are.I snatch my phone up from my desk and scroll until her name comes up in my contacts list. For a long moment, I just stare at it.It feels wrong… I shouldn’t be the one to reach out first. She’s the one who has been making a mess out of this situation. Not just recently but for t
Damon POVA week passes.Seven days since the night she walked out into Rogue-infested woods, injured and trembling, and nearly got herself killed. It’s been seven days since I dragged her back to safety, since I saved her from certain death and told her to never act that stupid again.Strangely sin
He would never do something like that for me.My eyes sting from the brutal realization but I force myself to keep working, to keep my mask steady as I pretend Ronan’s words have no effect on me.He studies me carefully, perhaps noticing the flicker in my hands. “You know… for someone so young, you
Panic grips me.I duck my head, turning away from the door before he can spot me. If he recognizes me… if Damon hears I’ve come here while he was busy dealing with Alpha stuff, I’m going to be dragged back to the Pack House by my hair and thrown into a room with a lock on the outside door.“Where is
Lena POVIt’s days before I can head to the clinic again but when I finally do, the tension coiled inside me slowly begins to unravel.The corridors smell of familiar antiseptic and faint lavender, the same mixture Maya insists calms both patients and Healers. I’ve come to hate love it despite it be
Celeste POVThe house was quiet when she slipped into Noah’s room, the faint glow of a night lamp spilling soft amber across the floor and ceiling.At the sound of the door slowly shutting behind her, Noah sat upright in his bed, his small frame tense when he caught sight of the figure standing by h
Lena POVThe world tilts on its axis as Damon’s roar fills the room.For a heartbeat, silence hangs heavy. My arm drips blood onto the floorboards from the claw marks marring my skin, Noah trembling weakly in my lap. Celeste’s entire body freezes above me, her nails still gleaming scarlet in the poo
My heart twists painfully.For a moment, I wonder if this was Damon’s plan all along. To bring me back here only so I could see it with my own eyes that my own son still rejects me, that he will always choose someone else. It’s a far worse punishment than I could’ve ever imagined him coming up with,
Lena POVThe silence that follows is heavy, electric. Even Noah, half-dazed with his fever, stirs faintly at the sharpness in my voice.Celeste doesn’t flinch. If anything, she seems to revel in having finally gotten under my skin, like she’s been waiting for this exact moment since she forced her w
Lena POV“Stop being jealous.”Damon’s voice roared through the receiver, so sharp and loud that I jerked the phone away from my ear as if his fury could burn straight through the line. His anger was palpable, alive, like a storm slamming into me from miles away. “At a time like this, when our son i







