LOGINIt would have broken Bria’s heart to see how much all of us were suffering. To discover that our own parents had betrayed everyone by spying for her murderers, that her former mate had enslaved her big sister, and that our pack had nearly stoned me to death would have hurt her so badly that I found
Michaela The twilit world awaiting that night’s full moon felt strange and dreamlike. Maybe it was the surrealism that always came from a long-awaited event. The memorial ceremony for my sister had been planned for so long, and warped so many lives around it – especially mine. The ritualism of the
Andreas I let Michaela sleep in that morning, curled up on what had already become her side of the bed. Before I left, I indulged myself for a moment and tucked a fallen lock of hair behind her ear. She sighed in her sleep. “Rest, Mica,” I whispered. “I’ll see you tonight after the ceremony.” She
She took a deep, shaky breath, sitting up to face me. “Andreas, whatever you think of me, do you… Do you really still believe that I would have had any part in her death?” I sank back onto the bed, feeling something deep and dark turning over inside of me. I tried very, very hard not to remember M
Andreas I’d expected to spend the last few days before the memorial ceremony miserable, lonely, and exhausted by the preparations. Instead, I was only exhausted – but for very different reasons than I’d imagined. Michaela had come back to me. She still wanted me, even if things weren’t resolved be
Michaela There were only a few days left till the full moon. Till my lost sister’s long-awaited memorial ceremony. Isolated in the herb garden, I only managed to overhear small scraps of news about the preparations. The metal ores I’d suffered so much to mine had been melted into a beautiful statu
Michaela Gabriel was ecstatic at having Gavin stay with us, immediately dragging him by the hand to draw pictures together; I wished I could match his excitement. But even with my apprehension, Gavin’s presence was a relief. I’d grown so used to having him next door, always being able to pop over t
Michaela They didn’t even bother to beat me. They knew as well as I did that this time, I had no way out. Now, when Andreas’s subordinates swarmed around me to bind my arms and legs, they used proper steel cable, impossible to gnaw through and too hefty to break. Andreas just watched with that smu
Michaela As Gavin poured his heart out to me, I saw his story unroll like a series of pictures in my mind. The skinny young lawyer who’d found me in the forest and helped me build a new life hadn’t gone into the woods for a hike. He’d gone with a rope, looking for a sturdy branch to tie a noose to
Andreas Alone and clenching his teeth with fury, the alpha Andreas Turner drove away from his pack’s territory. The sight of the road in front of him was overshadowed by the memory of the photographs he’d seen in the investigation files. A child. A little boy, all dark curls and big eyes, with Mic







