LOGINLillian’s POVToo soon, our moment of peace ended. With the rising sun, we had to dress and return to the palace, to try to find a way to sneak inside. I stayed back while Grayson scouted ahead in his wolf form. Since his senses were stronger than mine, I trusted him to find any hole in their defens
Quickly though, and perhaps not as careful as he should have been, he pulled off his shirt and kicked off his pants and boxers. When he was naked – so deliciously handsome – with his dick at attention, he returned between my thighs. Gripping himself, he lined himself up with my entrance.“I’d wanted
Lillian’s POVGrayson shucked off his jacket and laid it down on the grass. Then, taking hold of me, he gently guided me down on top of it before covering me with his body. His mouth went right back to mine. The kiss was slow, lazy despite the desperation of our circumstances.But that was just what
“Or desire,” Grayson added.Elder frowned, seemingly surprised by this. Had he expected us to kill him? To capture him? For what end?“Step aside,” Grayson said again.Elder looked at Grayson, and then slowly, stepped aside. Yet, before he moved too far from the light, I saw a flicker of something i
Lillian’s POV“Who are you?” Grayson demanded.“You may call me Elder, and that’s all I will say.”“What happened here?” I said. “You were here, weren’t you? I can sense this…” I gestured toward the ash. “On you.”“Yes, I was here,” Elder said. “There’s no harm in my telling you. Like I said, you ca
Lillian’s POVGrayson and I retreated back toward the woodlands near the border, where we felt comfortable switching back to our human form to talk. Grayson remained visibly agitated, in wolf or human form. Now, he pushed through his hair with his hands and paced back and forth between the tall tree
The room cracked open.Whispers erupted. The candidates pressed against the walls stared with open mouths. Servants exchanged glances. Even the King's composure slipped. The Queen leaned toward him. Whatever she murmured, his reply was a curt nod.I stood frozen with my palm flat against the wolf's
"He opened his eyes."The servant gave me a skeptical look. He sent for a doctor anyway. The doctor walked to the far end of the room and examined the Prince from a cautious distance, his eyes on the glowing wolf."No change," He peeled off his gloves without looking up from the monitors. "Vitals st
Maren moved first. She wrapped both arms around Calvin's neck and pulled herself flush against his chest, pressing every inch of herself against him. She looked at me over his shoulder, and her smile was small and deliberate and sharp — the smile of a girl who had won and wanted you to know it.Calv
I had seventeen minutes before the royal escort came to take me away. My father signed me up as the Alpha Prince's surrogate candidate. Alpha Prince Grayson, the King's only heir. He'd been in a coma for months.The King and Queen wanted a backup plan. An heir. So they'd sent word to all thirteen p







