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
Elena’s POVAjax was silent as he led me back to my room. Each step felt like a death sentence, like walking toward my doom. I feared the worst—feared that Kade might see right through my bluff, perhaps even realize who I truly was, and punish me in the most severe of ways.As Ajax unlocked my door,
Serena’s POVSerena overheard everything.Every movement. Every sound. Every word.She had watched through the crack in the door as Kade crept up to Elena’s bed. She had seen the look in his eyes as he watched Elena sleep. She had seen the hunger in his gaze. The desire.She had seen Elena straddle
And then she had no birthmark, and acted nothing like Samantha, and he began to wonder if she truly was innocent after all. Tonight, she had even said that she loved him. Those were words that Samantha never would have uttered.But now…Kade felt like he was going mad. Reality seemed ever-shifting a
Elena’s POVThe moment Serena’s face paled when she saw me, I knew it was over.Or… I thought I knew.I thought for certain that my own twin sister would recognize me. I thought she would rat me out to Kade and that everything would be lost.But… She didn’t.Serena simply glared at me, fingers tight







