LOGINELENA'S POV, “Elena.” That voice from before came again, closer this time. “Focus on my voice, and let it consume you.” I recognised that voice this time because he kept speaking. It wasn't the first time I had heard it, and my mind still remembered it. Silverlake. He had appeared at my left witho
ELENA'S POV, “Elena, leave—” Andrew's voice cut through the noise and I ducked without thinking. Something passed over my head that I felt rather than saw, and then Andrew was there. “This place is not safe for you.” “Prince Andrew is right, come with me, Princess,” Joyce said, handling what I had
ELENA'S POV, The door swung open and the noise hit me like a wall before I could recollect my thoughts. The events unfolding in the main hall weren't the clean, controlled chaos of a fight with established rules and regulations. It was the other kind, the wild kind of chaos that I was expecting t
ANDREW'S POV, “That seems premature. We're at a delicate point in the discussion—” “Which is exactly why we need a few minutes,” I said, holding his gaze. He looked away first, and I continued. “To discuss your proposals in private and speak our mind without you listening to us. Unless there's a r
ANDREW'S POV, I noticed the guard first. Not his presence, his absence. The post in the east corridor had been manned every time I had checked it since we arrived. It was a consistent, unremarkable detail that I had catalogued the way I catalogued everything in a room like this one—automatically,
ELENA'S POV, The report came in fragments, the way bad news always did. It wasn't clean, nor with the kind of clarity that made decisions easy. Just pieces, arriving one after another through channels that were supposed to be secure and reliable, and each piece landed worse than the one before it.
RYAN'S POV,I wanted nothing to do with the crowd around me anymore.I was too tired to fight again, but I knew things wouldn't go down easily with the members of the council or the elders from my pack. I threatened war on a foreign country without consulting them on the matter first. They kept quie
She was shaking out of fear, and had her cheeks stained with tears. Others noticed me and turned in her direction too, and seeing her like that, both Ryan and Elena ran towards her. Elena picked Olivia up in her arms while Ryan brushed her hair, trying to calm her down. This wasn't something I was p
ANDREW'S POV, The entrance hall hadn’t emptied the way it was supposed to after the signing, despite the efforts of the wolves. Hunter and his men were trying their best to lead the crowd politely towards the backyard. But, the people lingered in clusters, speaking in low, poisonous murmurs that c
ELENA's POV,Ollie's room was the only place in the palace that still felt untouched by the vines of politics.The curtains were half-drawn, letting in strips of late-afternoon light that fell across the carpet in warm, golden lines. Wooden toys were scattered everywhere—wolves, soldiers, and a tiny







