I couldn’t let my emotions rule me. I needed to be strategic about this. I got the confirmation I needed from Jensen to know that he was protecting the person behind it or maybe even involved, which I found hard to believe since he had been chained up. Whether his silence was because he agreed wi
DEXThe dungeon was dark and cold. All the children had been returned to their parents before Cole had been dragged in. Yet, I still checked each shadow and listened carefully for any children who might have hidden with fear and accidentally stayed behind. That had happened the first time Cole had
EMBERClara stood outside the dungeon, tears silently streaming down her face as I approached with Jensen and a new guard. Queen Willow insisted that Kade be treated and get some rest before he returned to protect me, and I was furious that she felt that she had the right to assign a new person to
JENSENWe had lost two pack members during the full moon. I should have been mourning with the rest of the pack. Instead, I was fuming. If that bitch thought she could use me like that, then she had another thing coming. Dex sat in the infirmary, where the pack doctor was looking over an unconsci
DEX“I want to know as soon as he wakes.” It was the same thing I said every month.The pack doctors and guards knew the deal but played along anyway, knowing how concerned I was for my brothers. Only this time, I didn’t have to worry about Alec, and it was all thanks to Ember. Not only had she br
EMBERHis skin was warm, and his smell was intoxicating, drugging me as I ran my lips up the faint pink line on his side. The connection between us was so intense that I could practically taste him on my tongue, and I hadn’t even given in to that urge yet. Dex tightened his grip on my hips, and a s
DEXI scanned the room on high alert, watching Ember laugh with a few of my pack members. Everyone was celebrating the potential last full moon of the curse, but I was watching for the person who wasn’t.If they had been behind the attempted murder of their Luna, surely there would be signs. Yet, as
DEXAs the pack filtered out of the dining hall for the night, I sat back in my chair and watched Jensen and Caroline. For the rest of the dinner, they had repeatedly sent each other looks that made me positive they were up to something or knew something.I refused to let Ember eat the food on her