LOGINI never wanted to be special. I just wanted to survive. As the daughter of an executed traitor, I've spent seventeen years as a ghost in the Silvercrest pack, tainted blood, forbidden from shifting, watching my mother slowly die while everyone pretends we don't exist. Then Kai Silvercrest comes home. The Alpha's heir. Gorgeous. Deadly. Supposed to marry the Beta's daughter and secure his dynasty. Instead, he takes one look at me and claims me as his mate in front of the entire pack.
View More(Mira POV)I sat at the well until half past eleven and then I got up and walked back toward the laundry yard because the sheets were still in the basket dripping and the tubs were still full and Ada's things were still hanging half done on the line and I could not sit at the well indefinitely without the whole street noticing and commenting.I was on the lane that ran alongside the back of the washing yard when I saw him.He was coming from the direction of the northern boundary, the work jacket damp at the shoulders from the morning mist the same way it had been every morning this week, and he had his hands in his pockets and his eyes on the ground in front of him, and he had not seen me yet.I stopped walking.He came up the lane with his head
(Mira POV)I had been at the laundry tubs since seven.It was the kind of work that did not require thinking, the lifting and the wringing and the hanging, and I had been doing it on Wednesdays since I was sixteen and the rhythm of it was in my body independent of whatever my head was doing, which meant I could work through the morning while my head was somewhere else entirely and the laundry would still get done.My head had been somewhere else for days.I was wringing out a sheet, both hands twisted in the wet fabric and my arms aching from the weight of it, when Ada Mensah came through the gate at the back of the washing yard with her basket on her hip and her mouth already open.Ada's mouth was always already open. It was one of the consistent
(Darius POV)Miller came back at eleven forty-seven with three folders.He set them on the desk in a neat stack and stood back and I looked at the stack and said, "Close the door on your way out," and he went.I opened the top folder first. The south gate log for the day of the fall, six in the morning to six in the evening, every entry and exit recorded in the gate guard's handwriting with the time and the name and the authorization code beside each one. I ran my finger down the column of names and found the Beta's office commission entry at nine seventeen, two names, Danny Reeves and Theo Brennan, authorized under the Harrison Lockhart commission seal.I found the exit at ten fifty-one. Two names, same order.I turned the page and found the re-e
(Darius POV)The door clicked shut behind Kai and I sat in the chair and looked at it for a moment and then looked at the glass on the desk and the ring of moisture it had left on the leather blotter.He had said the incident report covers what happened four times. Not three, four, and the fourth time had been in response to my asking whether he was sure, which I had not asked aloud but which he had apparently read in my face regardless. The boy had always been able to read my face, it was the thing about him that had required the most management over the years, and he was better at it now than he had been at seventeen and considerably better than he had been at twelve.I picked up the letter opener and held it.The incident report said she fell. One sentence, essentially, dressed in the admi
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