Mag-log inSarah 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 POVBefore I was even done with the sentence, Shota had darted in, taken up the jacket, pants, shirt, cummerbund, and all the rest and walked swiftly back toward me and Matthew. I looked over to the girls, but they were sitting there calmly flanked by our friends.The two alphas bowed to each
“What do you mean?” Alpha Colette asked. As this was her palace, she was playing the role of moderator, I saw.“It was only a few decades ago they started wearing those hoods to hide themselves, and not long before that they started to live apart from the rest of society. Oracles and priests used to
Sarah POV“You know she kidnapped his daughter.”I kept my eyes front and center, not betraying with a single sign how that comment, which seemed to float across the room, like a gently thrown, sharply pointed paper airplane, right to my ears.I was thrown back in time to the days I stood outside Ch
Zane POVFor the next few days, it felt as though the world were holding its breath.I was doing what I could to keep things functioning, and Operation Lieutenant was proving useful for so many things it seemed odd now we had created it only to deal with my family’s problems, which currently took se







