MasukA second one appeared behind the first. Then a third, coming around from the right. They converged slowly toward the center of the ruins. Toward me.The first one took another step closer.I started moving then, slow and steady despite my heart pounding wildly in my chest. I kept low and kept to the
Natalia’s POVMy feet bled inside my shoes. I shifted and moved in wolf form whenever I could, but I had to take shifts, giving my wolf time to rest. But eventually, I made it after two days of travel, exhausted and dirty and yet, somehow, exhilarated.Celeste’s map outlined some old ruins on the ot
The night she had told me Andrei had to die.I stared at the illuminated path. It pitched upward, toward the mountains. I’d have to traverse them to follow it. It would be dangerous, but I knew her light would guide me.But if I followed it… Would I have no choice but to fulfill my “destiny”? To kil
Natalia’s POVI’d made good time through the Thornwood and past the mountain, stopping at Bloodmoon long enough to sleep one night and resupply. David had asked questions I didn’t really answer, and he’d let me leave anyway, which was the thing I loved most about my brother. He understood the famili
Upstairs, I washed up and changed, then went to the war room.My generals were already assembled. There were four of them, each responsible for a different quadrant of the territories above. They stood when I entered and sat again when I gestured for them to.I relayed the information I’d gathered a
Andrei’s POVThe castle had no name.It didn’t need one. Everyone who knew of it knew what it was, and everyone who didn’t know of it wasn’t meant to. It sat at the edge of the Ashfields, where the ground was black and cracked and the sky was always dark, and it had been mine for five years.The pre







