LOGINSerena planted a hand on her hip and cocked her head. “You done?” she asked almost impatiently, gesturing to the tray. “Because I made you soup, and I’d hate to deny giving it to you just because you’re being naughty.”“Fuck you and your soup,” Kade snarled. “Where’s Elena? Where’s Ivy? Where are th
Kade’s POV“Kade…”He couldn’t feel the mate bond anymore, and it terrified him. Like reaching into a familiar space where there was once warmth and life, only to find cold emptiness within.But he could hear her voice calling to him, soft and distant. She was there still, just further now, and all
Elena’s POV“She was supposed to heal you.”“I know. She didn’t.”“Why?”“I don’t know… She tended my wound, but she didn’t use her powers…”The voices faded in, slow at first, then all at once. I blinked my eyes open, adjusting to the darkness around me. The air smelled like damp earth and somethin
Whoever lived here was gone at the moment, but they could come back anytime. We decided to keep one person on the lookout, prepared to call out if anyone showed up. That person wound up being Lana.Tyler, Kade and I laid Nellie out on the table, propping a small, somewhat foul-smelling pillow from t
Elena’s POVKade crouched down, letting Nellie climb onto his back with Tyler’s help. He hooked his arms under her knees and stood, and we kept moving.Nobody talked much, other than Nellie, who quietly pointed Kade in the right direction. The forest was too thick and too dark for idle conversation,
Kade got to work without question.As I worked, carefully packing the white paste into the puncture wounds all around Nellie’s leg, Tyler looked at me. A moment later, his voice slipped into my mind.“Why don’t you just use your power to heal her?”My jaw tightened. “I can’t.”“What? Why?”I glanced
Kade tried his best to reassure Serena, but nothing worked. Her bitterness only grew and grew with each anniversary that passed, and most of it was directed at a child. Ivy was smart enough to notice and promptly hurled Serena’s hatred back at her with double the force.A faint smile curved Kade’s l
Something that wouldn’t respond to normal medicine.“I have to,” I said, looking at Tyler, then my father. “You understand that.”My father hesitated, then nodded. “If you feel it’s the right thing to do, then we won’t stop you.”Tyler looked like he wanted to protest, but at a single, withering loo
“Not just yet,” Natasha cooed, checking her nails with deliberate calm. “Since she was disrespectful enough to spit up on my shoes, I think more burpees are in order.”…Kade’s POVI must have been glaring at the cell door for an hour now. They’d put me in a cell. A fucking cell. My wolf was furiou
Elena’s POVI tried to ignore the desperate sounds of Ava’s howls. I shoved my pillow over my face and groaned into it in an attempt to drown them out. I tossed and turned and stuffed my fingers in my ears.But none of it worked.Each time I closed my eyes, I saw that wretched look in Kade’s gray ey







