LOGINFABIAN'S POVThe man was gone.That was the part that had been irritating me since yesterday.After leaving the gym with Cicero, I didn't think I would receive a call from Kael telling me he knew someone who could help with our investigation into the ATL but it had happened and this man that Kael mentioned was supposedly someone who could get us Intel that we couldn't get ourselves.He was a human but also the first useful lead we had gotten in days.The moment I heard that, Cicero and I had gone to find the man immediately, only to be told he was missing.It had taken a lot of conscious effort to not growl at the humans who had told us about his disappearance, leaking our identity as shifters.Often, the aggression was what gave us away but after dealing with humans for so long, I'd learned to keep some of that natural dominance in check until yesterday tested my patience.By the time I returned home, my patience had already worn thin then I saw the flowers and asked Martha who broug
AVIONNA'S POV That was impossible.Heat?Right now? Right here?It couldn't be.There was no way this was true, it couldn't be. But the faces of the women gawking at me had already confirmed it and deep down I knew it myself.No wonder I'd felt so dizzy, nauseous and hot since waking up. Now I understood why my nostrils were so sensitive and why nearly everything smelt so putrid.It was because I was going into heat."No, no, no. This can't be. It's not possible. I can't be going into heat. Why now? Why me? What do I do?"I was working myself into a frenzy and I knew it but I couldn't stop.As though she'd heard everything I said too, my wolf rose and had begun to prowl within me. It worsened the state of my mind but I was so caught up in what I'd heard that it didn't occur to me to get her to stop.I'd heard of heat before. Every female wolf knew what it was. Right from when we got into middle school, we had been taught about our body's physiology and our biological makeup even if w
AVIONNA’S POVI guess fate hadn't messed with me enough because I woke up feeling like I had been stuffed inside an oven.My breathing was wrong, my head felt woozy and my thoughts sludged through my brain.I picked up a scent from beyond the room and immediately wrinkled my nose. It smelled like a chemical approximation of lavender which somehow reminded me of a decomposing raccoon.When I kicked the blanket over my body away, I regretted it instantly when a shiver ran down my spine which didn't make any sense because beaded sweats trailed down my chin.My nightdress clung to my body, damp like clothes hung to dry on a misty morning while my stomach felt like I had the world's worst period stacked on top of food poisoning.The moment that thought settled, my eyes snapped open.Period.Was that what this was?I paused for a second but didn't feel that stickiness between my thighs. I couldn't sniff out blood from the air either.It wasn't my period but it did feel like a fever. I close
AVIONNA’S POVThe name on the screen made my stomach twist, like there were too many cords curling and unwinding within it.For a moment, I stared at my phone without moving. I couldn't even blink. The call had come from the last person I expected would call me right now.My Dad.The last time we spoke was the day after Ivy's wedding and after that day, neither of us had made an effort to change that.Too much was happening in the Saturn Pack for me to wonder why my Father hadn't reached out to me once. Additionally, he rarely called me unless he needed an errand run or simply just wanted to remind me of my inadequacies.Now that he was suddenly doing so, I couldn’t help but be suspicious of the reason for his call.I wondered what he could possibly want now and what I should expect from him. I could just tell already that it wouldn’t be anything good. For a second, I thought about letting my phone ring without picking but changed my mind against doing that.Dad could be frustrating
AVIONNA’S POVI didn’t show it but I had been secretly delighted when Zolani reassured me that it was okay to bring back as many flowers as I wanted to. She had paid for everything too and had helped me prune and arrange them into the vases Martha had brought out from storage.Those Vases apparently belonged to the previous Luna. Not Hillary, but Fabian’s mother. “We haven’t used them in years. Luna Mallory had quite a collection. Some of these vases are really valuable antiques,” Martha had said when she brought them out, reminding me to be careful about where I placed them.I’d taken her words to heart and I had been careful to handle each one like the glass material it was made of.Now, all of those vases were broken.Glass shards lay scattered across the yard, catching the morning light, and the flowers that had once filled the vase were trampled beneath them.For a long while, I remained rooted to the spot, staring at the mess.Then tears stung my eyes.The person responsible
FABIAN’S POVEven before Cicero mentioned it, I had been thinking about it.This puzzle that remained unsolved was one that greatly bothered me. My people’s safety depended on cracking whatever this was and I still hadn’t figured it out.So, the instant Cicero mentioned Darius, my gaze swept to him and my eyes narrowed.Had he figured something out? Something I was missing?Unfortunately, he hadn’t. Cicero had only been asking because he wanted to know if I had unraveled the mystery myself.“We still haven’t figured out what he wants.”I shot Cicero another glance. Did he think I didn’t know that? Or were his thoughts so muddled by whatever had fueled him into kicking up a punch this morning that he thought I hadn’t considered it?Whatever it was that was grating on him, I hoped it ironed it out soon because I didn’t think I could bear with this another day. I preferred my Beta when he was rational and calm.Ever since our conversation with Kael, I’d turned everything I knew over in







