LOGIN“How’s it looking?” I call up.“Excellent. We’re heading for our best harvest yet.”“Wonderful.”“And you, sir?” she asks, and damn it if there isn’t something coy in her eyes. “Are you a fan of our wine?”“A great fan,” he says somewhat stiffly.“And of the wolf whose idea it was for us to make win
Layla’s POVI feel bile rise in my throat. This is the hard, demanding, even frightening Alpha I had learned from when I was in training to be his Delta. This is the Alpha who exiled his once-wife to a wintry wilderness.This is the Alpha who kept his pack safe and strong, no matter the cause.This
Alexander waits until she’s left the office before rounding on me.“You’ve managed to avoid giving me an explanation,” he growls. “But your time has run out, my dear.”I walk behind the desk and gesture for him to sit down before taking a seat myself. “Just what explanation do you feel you are owed,
Layla’s POVAfter Alexander and Camila leave Thornhill Memorial to return to Stormhowl, I spend the night in my son’s room. To manage to get to sleep, I pretend he’s just asleep. The doctors all tell me that’s the truth, in a way.I listen to his breathing, and my eyes close. When my eyes open, it’s
But now? She was in her twenties and should have picked up on how to do things by now. What was the holdup?“Wait until you see my gown,” she tells her foster brother. “It’s being hand-beaded, and the train goes on for miles.”Vincent makes a show of gasping. “Literal miles? I wouldn’t put it past y
Layla’s POVI keep my face absolutely still while Alexander stands up straight, looking with puzzled eyes first at me and then at Vincent.“Your son?” His voice is flat.Vincent smiles. “Yes.”Alexander frowns. “So, you are married?”Vincent laughs. “I know that in Stormhowl, children out of officia
Layla’s POVOutside of true territories and packs, the quiet doesn’t last forever.Weeks had passed since the rogue attack, and while Starfall had settled back into a peaceful pattern, something outside changed. With each passing day, our semi-quiet neutral territory became more unpredictable.Merch
“Or desperate… stupid, maybe,” I mutter, then raise my voice. “We hold the line. Do not let them into the town!”I move, my fighters and Leona with me, and we take our positions outside the town gates.The first of the rogues break through the tree line moments later, the wolf’s movements fast, aggr
Layla’s POVI notice how quiet it is first.Not the eerie silence that comes with a dark forest or the awkward silence that comes at the end of arguments. No, this silence is soft and still. Safe.It’s so nice that it takes me a minute to realize I’m surrounded by warmth.That in itself pulls me fur
Pain flared in her hand where the rock sliced through her skin, and another broken whimper fell from her mouth.“I can’t…”She gasps for air, trying to ignore the pain radiating in her body.There was no warning before her legs gave out beneath her. She collapsed, the cold ground reaching up to pull







