MasukKade decided not to press the matter and instead focused on running a bath.…“My daughter…” Margaret bowed her head over the clean white sheet covering Serena’s body in the morgue, her tears dripping onto the fabric. “My little girl…”Jack stood nearby with his fists clenched. He had said little si
Kade’s POVThe sun had long since gone down by the time Kade returned to Crescent Hollow.Ajax drove the entire way, his fingers white around the steering wheel, occasionally looking in the rearview mirror with apprehension, as if Serena might suddenly sit up and speak.She didn’t.In fact, the driv
My lips parted, but Jayne wasn’t finished.“The third time was last week.” Her expression hardened, and she looked away, out the window at the murky swamp beyond. “My brother.”“I didn’t know you had a brother.”“He was a rogue. He’d always been an abusive asshole to me and my mom. My mom wouldn’t l
Elena’s POVI moved toward the edge of the porch, squinting into the sunlight that was filtering through the canopy overhead. Jayne stepped out of the shadows and pushed her hood back.Neither of us said anything at first. She just looked at me, and I looked at her, and I knew from the expression on
“Grieving.”Ivy blinked. “What does that mean?”“It’s… What I did for your mom.” His throat tightened. “What I did for you for a while, too.”“That doesn’t really make sense.”“It won’t,” he said, putting his hand on her shoulder. This time, she didn’t flinch away, which came as a relief. “Not until
Kade’s POVKade, Tyler, and the others didn’t return to Nightshade for two days after they left Elena behind.Each step of the way, Kade considered turning back for her. Multiple times, he had considered marching back there and scooping her up into his arms and forcing her to return with him, even k
Kade couldn’t deny his wolf’s command. Panic shot through him like a cold dagger of ice piercing his chest. Without hesitating, Kade threw the covers off and bolted out of his room, then down the hall to the nursery.The door was wide open.The crib was empty.“Where is she?!” he bellowed, bursting
Some of my fervor deflated. It broke my heart, knowing that they would bar me from going to Crescent Hollow to retrieve my child.Tears filled my eyes. I released Tyler’s jacket and turned on my heel, retreating to my room without a word. Once I was alone, I threw myself onto my bed and cried into m
“How long has he been like this?” I asked, carefully moving aside the blankets to get a better look at him.“About a month now. The fever won’t go away. He hasn’t eaten in a week now.”My chest ached for the poor little boy. He looked frail and thin as I moved aside the blankets, and he cried out at
Kade’s POVWhen the child wrapped her tiny fist around Kade’s finger and held his gaze as if silently daring him to take her out into the wilds, Kade knew he had just lost.Dammit.This baby was the one thing that Samantha had left behind for him. If Samantha was dead—well and truly dead, and all of







