LOGINSarah POVAfter the onsite security personnel and police had come, taken Ella’s body along with our statements, and then left, it was early morning. I worried about the girls, but they were as keyed up as I, and finally we all just piled on Zane’s bed, which was now my bed as well. Zane had his arms
Sarah POVGinnyWolf: Sarah is a MOON WOLF??!! Are you KIDDING ME?WhiteKnuckling: This is a hoax. Total bullshit.PPPPJohnP: I knew it.ShangHairSurprise: Will she be reforming the Luna Temple again?Rosemary&Sage: Hey now, PPPPJohn, THAT’S bullshit.With a laugh, I put the phone in the purse Lainey
Sarah POV“We all fear death,” Zane said.That wasn’t what I meant at all, and I told him so. My dress turned to silver in the moonlight, and I held his warm hands in mine.“If you seek the truth, stop seeking enemies and find the moon,” I and the statue and someone else said, speaking as one.He lo
Zane POVIt was thallium poisoning.“The treatment is proceeding with Prussian blue, which traps thallium to keep it from being further absorbed, as well as activated charcoal and forced diuresis,” the doctor, whose name I learned was Vassles, told me.Sitting by Sarah’s bedside, I was trying hard n
Zane POV“Alpha Zane!”Never, in all the years he had been working for me, had I heard such a sound of panic in Hans’s voice.I looked up and out my window. Hans wasn’t in the house. I saw him frantically waving at me over by the poppy garden almost a mile away.I ran down the stairs and out of the
Sarah POVThe day was lovely—perfect, even. The girls were back in school and making up for lost time, Zane was in his office and waved to me as I walked past the villa, and all the “lieutenants” had gone home.It was odd to look back on the past year. Had there ever been more than a day here and th
Sarah POVWith Zane at the temple and the girls in school, the villa, for all its size, felt claustrophobic. I texted Melissa and found out she was currently at the Abrigan Mine making a YouTube video of the children at their new school explaining the inner workings of a geothermal plant.I even wen
The priest passed the goblet to the head Oracle, who brought it up under her hood, swallowed without difficulty, and returned the now empty vessel to the priest, who walked out. The Oracle motioned to the marble slab near me, and I got on and laid down as she did the same.The Oracle took one of tho
Zane POVSo it was that despite my earlier relief, drugged tea was in my future. At least they didn’t make me bathe again.I had never been on a spirit walk, though Bertrand had and told me all about it in somewhat horrified detail. The walk had helped him, he swore, but he said he never wanted to d
Zane POVPart of me very much did not want to return to the Luna Temple, especially alone and without definable questions, but Travis and Wetmore hadn’t been able to give me answers even to the vaguest of inquiries.It’s something almost impossible to explain to someone other than another Pack Alpha







