LOGINGEORGINA'S POV, The safe house was on the outer edge of the city, tucked behind a row of buildings that had been abandoned. It was exactly the kind of place that didn't exist on any map anyone important looked at—unremarkable, forgettable, useful. I had three of them positioned across the kingdom
GEORGINA'S POV, I had known Anil for long enough to understand that his greatest flaw was also the thing that had once made me want him, he actually believed in things. Not strategically, not as performance, but genuinely, the way people believe in things when no one has yet taught them how expensi
ELIAS'S POV, I had been in enough rooms like this one to recognize the architecture of a trap before anyone bothered to spring it. Karlson was the provocateur, that much was obvious within the first few minutes of watching him work. He had the particular gift of people who had spent decades inside
ELIAS'S POV, I was seven years old the first time I saw her. My father had taken me to one of those gatherings. The noble families dressed it up as celebrations but were really just exercises in demonstrating power—who stood where, who spoke first, who had the finest clothes and the most polished
ELENA'S POV, Something shifted before anyone said a word. It wasn't loud or obvious, but I felt it, the way a room changes when danger decides to walk in and make itself comfortable. Andrew's warning still echoed in my ears, low and controlled but sharp enough to cut through everything else. Stay
ANDREW'S POV, Something ate at my nerves once we realised that neither of us were ready to move back. It pulled my mind from them and their smug looks. I thought about the bigger picture, the dirty politics that had ruined this kingdom for years. Every deal hid a knife. Every promise was a trick
I forced myself to keep walking, to push the feeling down where it couldn’t choke me anymore. Later that day, I carried a stack of Ollie’s work to Ryan’s study to discuss what I was teaching her and what I should introduce next. It was something we had been doing for weeks, and it was about Ollie's
When I told Julian about it, he brushed the whole thing aside instead of acknowledging the problem. “It's not a big deal in our pack, Elena. Kai is the only one who's shy about it. No one else thinks about it at all. We celebrate the body that the Moon Goddess has gifted us. And I can assure you tha
ELENA'S POV,“What happened? Are you afraid already?” he asked, and I didn't know how to answer that question because I was terrified of what was coming next. While it wasn't my first time with a man, it had been a while since the last time I had been physical with someone. And I knew he had been w
ELENA'S POV,“Ryann…”I moaned his name when the pleasure pulsed through my body, involuntarily arching my back and pressing my thighs against his face. His movements slowed down because my grip was tight, but it was tight enough to stop him completely. He kept on licking my insides, sending electri







