LOGINI straightened up. My heart was pounding. I looked around the room and for a single, disorienting moment, I had no idea where I was. The black stone walls, the red sky beyond the window, the dead air of this place—none of it felt right. None of it felt like mine. I felt like a man who had woken up m
Andrei’s POVThe collar of my shirt was pissing me off.I had fastened it twice already and it still insisted on sitting crooked, pulling too tight on the left side. I undid it a third time and redid it, slower, watching my hands in the mirror rather than my own face. My reflection had been botherin
Natalia’s POVHe didn’t hesitate.The moment I swung the rod toward him, his hand shot out and closed around my wrist like a vise. My arm wrenched sideways, and I felt the bones grind together under his grip, and the rod fell. It clattered somewhere on the stone floor, rolling away into the darkness
Andrei’s POVThe room was warm. The bed was soft and plush, the pillows made of feathers and velvet. Everything smelled familiar, the kind of scent that you recognize from a past life but can never put a finger on its source.Home.The woman was laying next to me, just as she always did. Amber hair
But I would do it, because the alternative was my children going through whatever came next, and that was not something I was willing to consider.I wasn’t certain yet. That was the only reason I was still trying so hard now. Because there was still a small part of me that thought that there must be
Natalia’s POVThey came for me after what felt like a full day. I say felt like because it really could have been any amount of time, or none at all. But someone did bring me some slop to eat at some point, so that had to have meant that at least a full cycle had passed.I was on my feet before the
AndreiI poured myself another glass of whiskey. It was my third—or was it my fourth?—of the night. The amber liquid sloshed over the rim and spilled across my fingers, turning them sticky, but I didn’t care.I just brought the glass to my lips and drank deeply, welcoming the burn as it traveled dow
NataliaA few days later, I made my way down the dimly lit staircase that led to the Ashmoor cells, a place I’d rarely had reason to visit in the five years I’d been here.I didn’t like visiting places like this—not even when I was the Luna of Moonshadow. It was dark and dank and I hated the way the
Lilith & AndreiLilithPerfect. Everything was going according to plan.I tucked myself behind a marble column, watching as Natalia stumbled down the hall with Alpha David’s arm looped around her waist. Even from here, I could see the way her footsteps staggered and her head lolled against his shoul
Dreams that I would rather keep to myself. Especially because tonight wasn’t the first time I’d had them. Far from it, in fact.“I don’t remember that,” I lied, but I could feel my cheeks burning hotter as he looked at me.“You’re blushing,” he pointed out, his voice dropping lower. The sound sent a







